For a while, I’ve been converting videos into WEBP files that can offer little thumbnails and are simple to open in anything whether from a web browser, web browser-based app like Voyager, or something more native like Apollo for Lemmy.

The sucky part is that they tend to be bigger than videos, have no audio support, and show massive compression artifacts for reasonable file sizes without dropping resolution. (It’s also extra work to run my local conversion script.)

Any preference on what people want to see? Is it worth the trouble or is just posting the video to Catbox more than enough?

EDIT: Examples in case anyone doesn’t know the difference:

  • TheGreatDL@ani.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Personally, I prefer the .webm because sound is just icing on cake. I am always secretly disappointed when there’s no audio. I admit I’m spoiled though.

    Both work fine with boost, though.