.gifv support/workaround

clare · Jul 13, 2015

We did used to have support for it, I'll look into doing it again though.

fluffy · Jul 17, 2015

This seemed to be the first I had heard of this format… being lewd, however, I seem to have already established a few in my browsing history. I found this out when I typed "gifv" into my address bar to learn more… anyhow, a quick peak at the source code gave me this snippet.

<a class="" title="Greetings GIF Creators! (HUGE)" href="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.gifv">
    <video autoplay="" loop="" muted="">
        <source type="video/webm" src="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.webm">
        <source type="video/mp4" src="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.mp4">
    </video>
</a>

If we're talking about forum posts or chat messages, seems to me a simple regexp should do the trick.

~i.imgur.com/(\w+)\.gifv~
~i.imgur.com/$1.webm~

From there just wrap it in a video tag and kick back. This could be implemented as JS or server-side.

clare · Jul 18, 2015

fluffy wrote
This seemed to be the first I had heard of this format… being lewd, however, I seem to have already established a few in my browsing history. I found this out when I typed "gifv" into my address bar to learn more… anyhow, a quick peak at the source code gave me this snippet.
<a class="" title="Greetings GIF Creators! (HUGE)" href="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.gifv">
    <video autoplay="" loop="" muted="">
        <source type="video/webm" src="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.webm">
        <source type="video/mp4" src="http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.mp4">
    </video>
</a>
If we're talking about forum posts or chat messages, seems to me a simple regexp should do the trick.
~i.imgur.com/(\w+)\.gifv~
~i.imgur.com/$1.webm~
From there just wrap it in a video tag and kick back. This could be implemented as JS or server-side.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Thanks.

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