Tdesktop: WebM support

Created on 13 Jan 2017 · 10Comments · Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Steps to reproduce

Send an mp4 (or other native supported) video and a webm video
compare the results

Expected behaviour

The webm should be recognised and displayed as a video instead of a file

Actual behaviour

This happens:
The top one shows an mp4 file and the bottom a webm.

Configuration

Operating system:
Arch Linux with Gnome
Version of Telegram Desktop:
1.0

Logs

Not needed

You can type debugmode in settings and then see ~/.TelegramDesktop/DebugLogs/log_...txt for log files.
Type debugmode in settings again to disable logs.

Source

flipflop97

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Most helpful comment

Some screen-capture apps (e.g. Awesome Screenshot) only allow you to download in .webm so having to transcode to MP4 to share with a colleague in Telegram seems... sub-optimal. Would love to see an embedded player for .webm files!

dajbelshaw on 6 Jun 2019

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All 10 comments

Related: #1106

ghost on 17 Jan 2017

1) API issue, WebM isn't supported by server
2) #1106 duplicate, Sending as Video isn't supported by app

stek29 on 17 Jan 2017

Can you support WebM? (it is a common format) @john-preston

dogancelik on 25 Jun 2017

@dogancelik Support means having in-app player for it?

stek29 on 25 Jun 2017

@stek29 Yes, thumbnails and player

dogancelik on 25 Jun 2017

@dogancelik Thumbnails are generated on server side, so it would have to download the file to generate thumbnail for it.
Speaking about player -- I've never seen any app which handles WebM good and isn't a player.
I hate that Chrome plays it and I always copy address from it and paste it to VLC. I'm glad TDesktop isn't trying to play webms.

Also, adding built-in player for videos haven't required much changes and additional stuff -- everything was in there for GIFs. WebM is completely different.

Also, I'd not say that WebM is "a common format" for all of Telegram users, but we can't check that.

And lastly -- you can try to make a PR, good luck with that :D

stek29 on 25 Jun 2017

What about WebM audio at least?

bam80 on 18 Dec 2018

Just found this issue after some relatives couldn't understand what the .webm file I shared was about. They're used to WhatsApp showing a thumbnail at least so it'd help if Telegram could do the same and make converting users easier.