[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 161963] [GTK] Gifv videos from Imgur.com don't get displayed when opened from a "direct" link

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161963

--- Comment #4 from Julián Unrrein <junrrein at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> FWIW: I see no video at either link, resizing the window doesn't make any
> difference for me, and I can't view your attachment since you uploaded an
> mp4 rather than a webm.

It turns out that's because imgur's gifv format is some form of mp4 and/or h264 (I'm not very knowledgeable in this area either). See "Gifv with Firefox"[0] for more.

> The groomsman in the gif is excellent.

Glad you found it of taste.

> Note this imgur was working fine until a month or two ago; it's not a WebKit
> regression, rather, imgur recently changed something on their server.

I don't remember this working correctly on Epiphany 3.18 last year either (that's one of the reasons I stopped using it) but I didn't report it back then.

> > If you don't think it's a WebkitGtk issue, I'll appreciate any other
> > information you can give so I can forward it to the Imgur developers.
> 
> More likely a WebKit bug IMO, but not enough info here to know yet. The best
> people to debug are almost always the website developers anyway.

How can I help? Bringing in the Imgur devs?

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/210528026-Gifv-with-Firefox

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