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New MP4 Direct Link BBCode(s)

BirdOPrey5

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You may see a new icon on the advanced editor -


This is for the new [mp4] BBCode.

[mp4] works just like [img] except it is for .mp4 video files.

A test-

[mp4]https://www.juot.net/vids/sameparty.mp4[/mp4] becomes...



You will note the video does NOT autoplay and the browser should only download a little metadata about the video unless you actually hit play when the browser will generally download the rest of the video.

There is also a new BBCode [mp4auto].

While it does not have a dedicated button in the editor [mp4auto] can be manually typed in. As the name suggests [mp4auto] starts the video on autoplay however the video is muted. [mp4auto] is only for short videos where it makes sense it should repeat like an animated gif. Please don't use it for large (file size) videos.

I know Imgur will allow you to direct link to mp4 videos (though they have no audio) and you can get the URL by right clicking on a video that is playing on Imgur.com and use the "Copy Video URL" or similar option in your browser. If your browser doesn't have this option try Chrome or Firefox. However you find the mp4 videos to link to is up to you, I strongly recommend you only link to videos on video and image hosting sites however and please don't link to any videos on JUOT.net itself.

Sample auto playing video-

[mp4auto]https://i.imgur.com/D2iQpKV.mp4[/mp4auto] becomes

 

BirdOPrey5

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Will it recognize the gifv file extension?
It's my understanding that on Imgur any gifv file should have an mp4 file of the same name, just change .gifv to .mp4 but if you have a gifv link you can paste I'll check it out and see what I can do.
 

Ralph

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It's my understanding that on Imgur any gifv file should have an mp4 file of the same name, just change .gifv to .mp4 but if you have a gifv link you can paste I'll check it out and see what I can do.
In order to post gifs here, I've always used imgur and changed the extension to .gif from .gifv



If there is also a .mp4 extension with them, I think that will cover it. Cool. :thup2:


Side note, if you use gfycat for gifs, the appropriate format to get a mp4 link is one of these three, apparently depending on filesize:

Code:
https://giant.gfycat.com/<gfyname>.mp4
Code:
https://fat.gfycat.com/<gfyname>.mp4
Code:
https://zippy.gfycat.com/<gfyname>.mp4
 

BirdOPrey5

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If you can get something to work with tag that is probably better than [mp4] since [mp4] may not work on Tapatalk though they should be a working link at least.

Best I can tell this is considered a gifv on Imgur but if I right click on the video there is an mp4 URL.

[URL="https://imgur.com/gallery/d8skZVO"]https://imgur.com/gallery/d8skZVO[/URL]
 

BirdOPrey5

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So this is my experience with gifv and mp4 on imgur.

I uploaded a short video clip and it was immediately available on imtur as a gifv file that did not work with mp4.

However after several minutes (more than 2, less than 5) right clicking on the image on Imgur the extension had changed from gifv to mp4, and once it did, it worked.

So I suspect files might upload as gifv first but be converted to mp4 shortly after.
 
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