Increased File Size Limits in Embedded Media

[FTLOTG]

Is it possible to increase the limit of files uploaded to posts? I often record footage for games and would be interested in posting clips directly to threads in the forum. I see it supports video uploads but the limit seems awfully low.

 

[Glimbo]

Probably won't happen.

Increase upload limit

Hello RGT team and staff and hello and greetings to all. I would like to suggest an increase in upload limit as I seen its restricted only to 2MBs which is very little if there is a technical reason or a size reason I completely understand but I would like to put this thought out there maybe...

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[Kamako]

I'm not sure what the file size limit is currently, but if it could be increased to 10MB, that'd be cool.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Problem with that is that the server may get overloaded with one-use images and videos. Forums and websites have been historically wary of that, and with good reason.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

Problem with that is that the server may get overloaded with one-use images and videos. Forums and websites have been historically wary of that, and with good reason.

we could make it pay-to-win and allow only donators to upload large files

wanted to upload a 4MB gif file yesterday couldn't cause of the file size

 

[Glimbo]

we could make it pay-to-win and allow only donators to upload large files

wanted to upload a 4MB gif file yesterday couldn't cause of the file size

Converting it to webp and turning down the quality works. You can really reduce the size of animations that way.

Spoiler: 1.1 MB gif (optimized)

Spoiler: 330 KB webp (75% quality)

Spoiler: 140 KB webp (25% quality)

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

Converting it to webp and turning down the quality works. You can really reduce the size of animations that way.

Xenforo forums are compatible with webp now ?

I remember a time when Xenforo just showed webp as generic files but maybe that's cause i'm used to awfully outdated forums

 

[Glimbo]

Xenforo forums are compatible with webp now ?

I remember a time when Xenforo just showed webp as generic files but maybe that's cause i'm used to awfully outdated forums

Yeah, there used to be some issues with webp not getting embedded.
After Spike migrated servers they starting working.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Xenforo forums are compatible with webp now ?

Yeah, got a plugging that mostly gets them right.

 

[diapered]

Converting it to webp and turning down the quality works. You can really reduce the size of animations that way.

Spoiler: 1.1 MB gif (optimized)

View attachment 93945

Spoiler: 330 KB webp (75% quality)

View attachment 93946

Spoiler: 140 KB webp (25% quality)

View attachment 93949

I never thought to try out gif2webp (also didn't know embedded webp was a thing here), but wow! Even without playing with any optimization/lossy command options (just default) it is more than 1/3 in file size decrease O_o Which is pretty much what you saw for that .gif Really cool

 

[Zerpina]

I said this in another message like this.
It's due to limited space and internet speed. RGT server is not a multimillion-dollar server or connected to a very expensive internet server costing over thirty thousand dollars a month. If every user could upload, say, fifty megabyte files each, just imagine how lagged the server would become.

Not to mention the storage space. RGT's server doesn't have hundreds of terabytes of space.
I don't know exactly how much it has, but it certainly isn't what say MegaUpload, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive have.

As for the internet speed, I am guessing it's The Boss man's own internet.
I might be wrong, that's just a guess. Again, it's not on a 20 Mbps service.

 

[Deleted member 821138]

If we could it would be nice, but if it's not possible Handbrake (the program) has helped me a lot in terms of reducing filesize of videos and gifs.

 

[Deleted member 868270]

yes please, increase it to 50MB

Problem with that is that the server may get overloaded with one-use images and videos. Forums and websites have been historically wary of that, and with good reason.

realistically how many people are gonna be uploading shit at the same time all the time, that is gonna make the server shit himself.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

yes please, increase it to 50MB

50MB is a fucking lot, 20 files hitting that limit and you're already at a gigabyte

storage is cheap when you get it for your own machine but when you rent that shit at a hosting provider it really is not

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Yeah I don't think this is all that feasible. If you want to upload images or video, you need to figure out ways to optimize and compress, not just up the file size limit on uploads.

As someone who is a webmaster on other sites, increasing file upload size limits is a disaster. Do you know how expensive it would be to host all those files on the server indefinitely? And if they were got rid of after a certain time period, we'd have a bunch of dead/dying/empty threads with half their post content missing.

Our current limits make sense IMO. If you want to upload videos, why not just upload them to a service like YouTube as unlisted and then share them in the thread that way? Then, Google are having to shell out for the server costs, instead of Spike.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

This was discussed before and was turned down. Reasons were greatly outlined by Zerp (in both threads).