The inline video previews no longer seem to work in 2.51.0 desktop on Linux, when I attach a video via Attach > File. Is this intentional? Is there some way to send videos where the previews still work?
Works for me. What video format is that? is the video displayed inline on Android?
I donât have any Android device, so I have no idea. The affected format is vp9+webm.
I see, I managed to reproduce with a .webm video. The same also goes for Android, so this is a Core issue. Itâs a bit of a mess. The video is displayed as a file on the sender device but as a video of recipientsâ and other sendersâ devices.
Maybe somewhat related to Large images are not handled consistently ¡ Issue #8296 ¡ chatmail/core ¡ GitHub.
We changed this recently, and started relying on Core to determine whether the file is just a file or if itâs a video or image message.
There was also a PR that was not merged with a proposal to make sure file is always sent as file:
Generally, attaching as file is for attaching files as is, with a filename.
Maybe media is better attached as âimageâ, even if it is a video.
Attaching it as an image doesnât seem to fix this either, for what itâs worth. But perhaps it would make sense to have either work fine for videos, Attach > File and Attach > Image, since in terms of UI I feel like a user might try both and itâs not clear which one is the ârightâ one. So if both worked, that would be best.
this doesnât work, even if you try to bypass the file-picker restriction to select image format, then the selected video is preview as broken image
I can also confirm that there is no way to preview videos now in Desktop, there is no âMediaâ, âgalleryâ or âvideoâ option, only image or file and when selecting a video it is selected as file, even if it seems to be ultimately sent as video
drag-and-dropping the video also staged it as file draft