Video uploads now available across GitHub

It&#x27;s kind of funny that you still can&#x27;t upload plain text files with arbitrary extensions when even videos are allowed. Like, try to upload a .json:<p>&gt; We don’t support that file type. Try again with a GIF, JPEG, JPG, MOV, MP4, PNG, CSV, DOCX, FODG, FODP, FODS, FODT, GZ, LOG, MD, ODF, ODG, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDF, PPTX, TXT, XLS, XLSX or ZIP.<p>How hard can it be to just allow plain text regardless of file name?

Big fan, as a very active GitHub user the conversion to GIF for screen grabs had been a constant paper-cut

Didn&#x27;t realise it was a beta feature and have been uploading them for months. Such a great feature, a ten second clip can save paragraphs of ineffective description.

&gt; Today, we’re announcing that the ability to upload video is generally available for everyone across GitHub. Now you can upload .mp4 and .mov files in issues, pull requests, discussions, and more.<p>Is there a filesize limit?

Any tips on the best software for Windows to record video? Would be nice to be able to record a part of the screen. Also, I am very wary about what I install so please no obscure software.

Oh, nice. Just what&#x27;s needed for game dev bug reports.

It&#x27;s a good start but it&#x27;s a shame they are limiting file types at all. We have been using GitLab which has allowed this for a while and we use it to share webm files which unfortunately still appear to be blacklisted by github.

Wonder if this will work for GitHub Pages as well. I&#x27;ve been using video uploads for issues but when I tried the same for some documentation on GitHub Pages I had to use &lt;video&gt; tags instead.

I wonder if Google search is going to be the primary interface through which people will end up reaching some of the helpful videos.

Little pet peeve, but one can&#x27;t upload pics to Github wiki without first dropping it into PR, then copying resulting link.

I really hope this comes to GHE!

Dope. Will make writing guides so much easier. And I do mean written guides. Just sometimes they could use a little context with short clips.

Sweet jesus, fucking love you github. Was surprised i can upload images already, this one is way way cooler.

Will GitHub become an alternative to YouTube?

ctrl-f of &#x27;lfs&#x27; yielded no results, are those files gonna clutter git repos?