I wrote about an issue I was facing here and recorded a screencast using Spectacle. The screencase was saved in ~/Screencasts, in the webm format.
I tried to upload it on KDE Discuss, but I was informed only the following file types are authorised:
jpg, jpeg, png, gif, heic, heif, webp, avif
I found an online converter to make it the webm into a gif.
The original video was 1.3MB, even though it was 20 seconds long and 2,622 × 1,286 px (I have a 4K, 120Hz monitor).
Converted into GIF, the file was over 15 MB, which was unacceptably large/
I ultimately had to upload the video to YouTube to be able to add it to my post.
Given that the project implicitly endorses webm and that it is a more efficient format than gif, would the administration here please consider permitting users to upload webm files directly?
Better Idea is to have the option to save the video as a gif instead of wenM cause gifs are far more widely used. There are also at least a couple of installable apps that will record as gif.
That would be a reasonable feature but at 1000% larger - and given that WebM is Spectacle Recorder’s default format, it would be preferable to just support it on this forum.
In Spectacle 6.3 (latest), you should be able to record to an animated WebP to get around this limitation. VP9/WebM is still a more efficient format, but animated WebP is far more efficient than GIF.