The old gif format doesn't support audio. Anything called gif with audio are mp4 video files. On the imgur site, you may have seen files with the extension gifv, but...
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"When you view a GIFV file on a website such as Imgur, you're viewing a video file, which would normally have the file extension .mp4 or .webm. The server is configured to serve the video using the extension ".gifv," but the video's file format is unchanged."
I wouldn't experiment with such a malfunction when the unit is plugged in. The best solution is to de-energise the house, if you have experience with the electrical panel, and then manipulate to remove the broken parts from the socket.
Lemmy's web instances do not display real videos. Also some applications, like Jerboa, do not display videos. Because of this, you have to convert the video to the outdated animated picture format - gif.
This format appears in all applications and web instances, but does not contain audio.
I think if we all flood the developers with requests for video support in Lemmy, things might change.
I have the same attitude towards ice cream.
Only the bottom of the ice cream, which has melted a little and which is in a waffle cup, is the most delicious. When a friend asked me to leave him half, I didn't want to give him the most delicious things.
Do you mean gif images from Mastodon? These images are in mp4 format and are essentially videos. Video is not displayed in Jerboa, Voyager and web interface.
So you will have to convert these videos into real gif format.
Users can save videos to their cloud services, such as gdrive, and insert a direct link to the video when creating a post.
I don't think that displaying previews of videos hosted on third-party services will take more resources than previews of gif images.