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Option to play GIF/Video files in the File Explorer Add-Ons for Image Previews. #23490

Open pyrestriker opened 1 year ago

pyrestriker commented 1 year ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

GIFs/Videos can play in the preview if the option is enabled.

Scenario when this would be used?

Occaisionally, especially when collecting a large number of image files, some GIF files are hard to discern without an animated preview. This would resolve this issue. For example:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3858960/213831757-5c3bdf36-6af5-4f7b-b036-7c22544a9b9c.mp4

vs

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3858960/213831832-a350ef26-ac97-43f4-93db-25bbffbeeaac.mp4

I have more, bigger than Github would allow, like variations of animated Discord Banners, etc. This feature is already present in Linux with multiple file explorers (though, implemented directly from the icon IIRC).

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cow1337killer3 commented 7 months ago

We seriously need this for videos/gifs. It'd also be great to preview audio files and show a waveform of the file.

I hope this would be easy to add since it might possibly be able to reuse the code from Peek previews... just turned into a file explorer add-on instead.