Viking_Hippie to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish · edit-27 months agoWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦imagemessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1792arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1776arrow-down1imageWhat fresh fuckery is this? 🤦Viking_Hippie to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square143fedilinkfile-text
That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
minus-squareXylight@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·7 months agoIt could be that it’s playing in a codec that your mobile browser doesn’t support like av1 or something. Not sure though, is this happening with every video?
minus-squarebrucethemooselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoSurely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
minus-squareXylight@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoI dont know if youtube has h264 support
minus-squarebrucethemooselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoThey have always hosted AVC videos. They have to for old/incompatible devices, because literally any toaster and software on earth will play it. But sometimes they are funny about what gets encoded to what, and of course they will always try to default to av1/vp9 and opus.
It could be that it’s playing in a codec that your mobile browser doesn’t support like av1 or something. Not sure though, is this happening with every video?
Surely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
I dont know if youtube has h264 support
They have always hosted AVC videos. They have to for old/incompatible devices, because literally any toaster and software on earth will play it.
But sometimes they are funny about what gets encoded to what, and of course they will always try to default to av1/vp9 and opus.