How to upload videos from iPhone? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Mydispo@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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So I was always a lurker and never uploaded anything, but I want to contribute to Lemmy as we all leave Reddit… can anyone help me upload a video from my iPhone? I’m not sure if it’s an issue with it being large (500+ MB for a 45s video), a wrong codec (the standard on iOS 16.5), or something else. Thanks!

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe they block videos from being uploaded all lemmy instances are run by regular people so they probably don't want a bunch of videos taking up all there hard drive space and having no room for discussions I think you should probably post it to YouTube or some other video hosting site and then link to it on lemmy

[-] argentcorvid@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

A PeerTube instance if you want to keep it Fedi.

[-] mook@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

What about imagur (newbie here)

[-] argentcorvid@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not for longer videos.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Hello, I believe there is a limit to upload sizes to keep server space down. Right now I only have 50 GB and about 80% of it is used up. I'm not sure what it is I'll have to ask the devs.

[-] Mydispo@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

That makes total sense... I'll have to investigate compressing and making GIFs etc to share cat craziness and other /r/abruptchaos, thanks!

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