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Sequential doesn't support .webm file format

Open KelseyDH opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

When I try to look at .webm files in Sequential, they don't work or display. The .webm video file format is now increasingly replacing the .gif file format on popular sites such as Reddit now, so the lack of .webm format support is now becoming quite inconvenient.

I understand this is quite an old project, but Sequential is still a great tool. How hard would it be to add .webm support to Sequential?

KelseyDH avatar Sep 27 '15 08:09 KelseyDH

Sequential uses the system image libraries, so if they support WebM, it should be very easy to add. If not, you would need to integrate a decoder library, which would be harder.

At one point I was thinking about integrating MPlayer/MPV for full video playback, or even generic file preview support using QuickLook, but I wasn't sure it was a good idea and I never got around to it.

I'm glad you still find Sequential useful!

btrask avatar Sep 28 '15 21:09 btrask

I doubled checked and WebM isn't natively supported in 10.10 (which you probably already knew). That means adding support would be harder, but still not impossible.

There's also https://github.com/btrask/Sequential-3, which is browser based so it gets WebM support for free. Although it's less native and not being actively developed either.

btrask avatar Oct 01 '15 23:10 btrask