EDIT: seems to be mainly an instance issue instead of an app issue. Viewing the linked comment on another instance will play the gif properly

I’ve only noticed this in comments so far. Certain WEBP videos show me a play button, but will never play when I tap on them. I’m assuming this is probably an app issue, but could maybe still be an instance issue.

Here is one comment that has this issue: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/21301284

I’m on the latest version of summit on an S23 Ultra.

  • brucethemoose
    2·
    4 days ago

    Ohhh, I see what’s happening @[email protected]

    This is the URL I actually get for the image on Lemmy.zip:

    https://images.lemmy.zip/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconvertico.com%2Fsamples%2Fwebp%2Fanimated-webp-3.webp

    It appears to be trying to automatically convert the image with convertico.com, which fails because it’s an animated webP, I guess?

    The error I get returned is:

    code	"validate-width"
msg	"Too wide"

    …This seems like a very janky default.

    Why does Lemmy.zip try to convert webps with convertico?

    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zip
      2·
      3 days ago

      Its not, the webp you embedded is from convertico.

      Other instances may not use the image proxy and may be more permissive with the content they allow to be uploaded, for better or worse.

      @[email protected] ill take a look ASAP and see if I can figure out why the proxy is rejecting them