[UX bug] Video clips that are 1. short, and 2. without audio track, aren't treated as gifs (which they are in other messengers)

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Video clips that are 1. short (probably a cut-off of a minute or so would make sense), and 2. without any audio tracks, aren’t treated as gifs which they are in other messengers. This seems kind of like a bug, because many other messengers send gifs as videos now, and in DeltaChat this doesn’t really work hence causing interoperability issues. Gif itself has trouble with giant file sizes if the gifs aren’t in a super small pixelated resolution.

  • Operating System (Linux/Mac/Windows/iOS/Android): Linux
  • Delta Chat Version: desktop 1.48.0 (git: flathub), core v1.148.7
  • Expected behavior: Gifs as videos works
  • Actual behavior: Gifs as videos doesn’t work, they don’t autoplay (which they should) and they have video controls and black bars for aspect ratio (which they shouldn’t)
  • Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. ffmpeg -i some_gif.gif c:v vp9 output.webm 2. Then send the resulting output.webm file via DeltaChat instead of the gif. Expected behavior would be it looks the same as sending the gif.
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I would rather say a few seconds as definition of short.

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Yes, it is better even then to just play a looped video without sound than a gif that will destroy the image quality. In general, I don’t think the function is very important.

4

For non-techies these basic social features are often more important than the encryption.

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