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The animated Element Call demo animation does not repeat
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Description
This causes the animation to play while I'm elsewhere on the website - and by the time I get to it, the animation has already finished. I didn't realise it was animated until I refreshed the page.
This is the image: https://matrix.org/element-call.webp
Apparently one needs to specify when encoding the file that it should loop indefinitely. Annoyingly, it appears that ffmpeg (and thus a bunch of software that relies on it) doesn't actually support animated webp images: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4907
So my 20m attempt to make a PR for this did not go very well. Have you considered another format, such as AVIF or APNG? :)
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating references to https://matrix.org/element-call.webp in the website and inspect how the asset is served. Check the animation's current behavior and the constraints around animated WebP, ffmpeg, AVIF, and APNG; done means the demo animation reliably repeats when visitors reach it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100