is it likely that embedded videos will ever be a part of the lemmy experience?
is it likely that embedded videos will ever be a part of the lemmy experience?
One of the only things I find myself missing about reddit is the videos. I'm aware that it's not really feasible for videos to be hosted on a lemmy instance at the moment, but I'm curious if that might change
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Just curious, is it not feasible because of the storage space the videos would take up or something to that effect?
They could just let us use embed code like this:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oHg5SJYRHA0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Doesn't have to be hosted on the instance.
Storage space is one issue. Bandwidth (how many TB/mo goes out the server) is another. And for any "serious" use case transcoding would also be important (so you can keep the other two down for everyone except Apple users who are stubborn to adopt VP9/AV1, and to provide multiple quality options), which unlike the other two requires powerful hardware most instances do not have.