Support gifv

[daenney]

Imgur's .gifv isn't supported when used in a ![alt text](link) markup . I know it's not exactly an image, but then neither is an animated GIF.

[bkeepers]

Hi @daenney, thanks for the request. We don't currently support video embeds in markdown, and we're not currently adding any more extensions to our Markdown support. Someday we may adopt CommonMark, so you might be interested in this conversation

Either way, there's not a change we could make to this project to implement support for it, so I'm going to close this issue. Thanks again for the request.

[rikonor]

If anyone's interested - wrote this to use with my team, but recognize that it might be helpful to others as well https://github.com/rikonor/github-gifv-support

[qrohlf]

I wrote and maintain an extension that renders .gifv from several sources (imgur, gfycat, instagram) in GitHub issues. It will also work with comment previews and XHR-rendered comments because it uses MutationObservers to scan for dom changes and process new gifs.

https://github.com/qrohlf/GifHub