Testing: Video Support

[Korishan]

I've enabled the video support for attachments/inline. File sizes no bigger than 10MB allowed.

Biggest downside is that I've noticed that some browsers won't play the video properly. After doing some research, this is 100% client side and depends on the encoding of the files. Not all MP4 files are created equal, for example. The reason for this is because we aren't doing re-encoding on the server side, much like how YT, FB, Twitter, TikTok, etc do theirs. No way are we going to pay for that much horsepower and barely use it. Would be like buying a Ferrari and only doing 10mph/kph all the time. Waste.

Maybe some other file types will work just fine, like AVI or MOV. Will continue testing.

 

[hbpowerwall]

10mb is because I pay for data & storage space

 

[italianuser]

For streaming, as correctly noted by @Korishan, files are usually re-encoded and server side has extra software for correcly handling buffered streaming for the clients. [ at least that's how it worked a few years ago on Windows Server ]

Without any particular setting/service server side, the video is passed to the client (browser) just as any other content, so the result isn't optimal: buffering is demanded to client side, while in the setup I remember on Win Server I handled CBR/VBR settings and buffering happened (also) server side.

Even with a bigger server and/or more bandwidth it shouldn't do much difference.

In any case I suppose it's good to have video support on the forum!