# Very large gifs should be shown as previews

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2월 19, 2015, 8:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423 "2015-02-19T20:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![NomNuggetNom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nomnuggetnom/32/122685_2.png) [@NomNuggetNom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NomNuggetNom)\
**Post date:** [3월 21, 2015, 11:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423/15 "2015-03-21T23:11:19Z")

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If you right click and hit “Copy video url:”

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/9/d/e9d7c87e6d4c1f605b6d9904e3bab02a0518d94c.png)  
And paste that, it embeds it:

[http://fat.gfycat.com/AggressiveClosedEstuarinecrocodile.webm](http://fat.gfycat.com/AggressiveClosedEstuarinecrocodile.webm)

It would be nice if this was done automatically. Maybe the video plays when the poster reaches the post too.

EDIT: In fact, gfycat has an [api to convert GIFs to MP4](http://gfycat.com/api). Might not be such a bad option to have this happen automatically. I bet a plugin could be made for this.

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