Media Encoding

Understand the different media formats that can be retrieved

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All images and videos have been encoded to enable a range of sizes to choose from. This makes it easy to show a preview or thumbnail without having to show the original size.

Images & GIFs

The following encoding types are supported for images/GIFs:

• THUMBNAIL
  • Converts file to .webp
  • Max size of 240px
• POSTER
  • Converts file to .jpeg
  • Max size of 602px
• LARGE
  • Converts file to .webp
  • Max size of 8192px
• ORIGINAL
  • Does not apply any encoding (except if the image exceeds LARGE width and height, then the LARGE max size is applied)
  • File format stays the same as what was uploaded

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Videos

The following encoding types are supported for videos:

• THUMBNAIL
  • Max size of 240px
• POSTER
  • Max size of 602px
• PREVIEW
  • Max size of 480px
• LARGE
  • Max height size of 2160px
  • Max width size of 3840px
• ORIGINAL
  • Does not apply any encoding (except if the video exceeds LARGE width and height, then the LARGE max size is applied)
  • File format stays the same as what was uploaded

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Audio

The following encoding types are supported for audio:

• LARGE
  • Converts the audio file to an .mp3
• ORIGINAL
  • File format stays the same as what was uploaded

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SVGs

Currently, there is only SVG support for ORIGINAL encoding type but will be expanding the options in the near future.