Sequential doesn't support .webm file format

[KelseyDH]

When I try to look at .webm files in Sequential, they don't work or display. The .webm video file format is now increasingly replacing the .gif file format on popular sites such as Reddit now, so the lack of .webm format support is now becoming quite inconvenient.

I understand this is quite an old project, but Sequential is still a great tool. How hard would it be to add .webm support to Sequential?

[btrask]

Sequential uses the system image libraries, so if they support WebM, it should be very easy to add. If not, you would need to integrate a decoder library, which would be harder.

At one point I was thinking about integrating MPlayer/MPV for full video playback, or even generic file preview support using QuickLook, but I wasn't sure it was a good idea and I never got around to it.

I'm glad you still find Sequential useful!

[btrask]

I doubled checked and WebM isn't natively supported in 10.10 (which you probably already knew). That means adding support would be harder, but still not impossible.

There's also https://github.com/btrask/Sequential-3, which is browser based so it gets WebM support for free. Although it's less native and not being actively developed either.