I recently made a video post using a link that I got from xcancel on a Twitter post. I can see the video when viewing from Lemmy, but when using PieFed, Voyager, and Blorp the video does not load.
The post I’m referring to:
~~https://piefed.social/c/starcitizen/p/2034751/in-my-experience-there-s-no-such-thing-as-luck~~
Edit with working link:
https://piefed.social/c/starcitizen@lemmy.world/p/2034751/in-my-experience-there-s-no-such-thing-as-luck
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FWIW, it shows up and plays for me in PF desktop, Firefox browser.
Definitely useful to know.
On desktop (for me)
- LibreWolf gives me an error where the media player should be, “No video with supported format and MIME type found.”
- Chromium shows the media player outline, but the play button never fills in, the time is stuck at 0:00
Both are showing a 403 Forbidden/Blocked GET request to the video URL source. However, I can see the video if I paste it directly into the URL for either browser.
I’m assuming there’s some sort of blocking going on between PieFed and Twitter/X since that video.twimg link likely leads back to the storage for Twitter/X files. Maybe it could also be an issue if someone is using a VPN to try to access the files through another site?
With Firefox on Android (even if asking for desktop version of site, then for good measure reload page) I get the same error that you did for LibreWolf, "No video with supported format and MIME type found.”
And I also get the same behavior for Chrome (on Android) as you described for Chromium on desktop.
I hope this helps a little.
LibreWolf gives me an error where the media player should be, “No video with supported format and MIME type found.”
I’ve seen that exact message when the post is pulling media from a 3rd-party source, but I haven’t enabled it yet via my uMatrix extension. Similarly, you might need to play around with your ad-blocker.
Good to know! I tried disabling my ad-blocker entirely in my desktop/mobile browsers as well as any DNS ad-blocking. I’m still seeing this issue for the particular video in this post.
Dammit.
I have the same problem in both Firefox and Vivaldi on Linux and Windows. I’m getting a 403 error:
I see this in Vivaldi:
video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2051274778753781760/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/DgFq_l1TNDVergoC.mp4:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
I saw this in FIrefox:
The resource at “https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2051274778753781760/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/DgFq_l1TNDVergoC.mp4” was blocked because Enhanced Tracking Protection is enabled.
So, I turned off Enhanced Tracking Protection and I get the same 403 as in Vivaldi.
While my Firefox is on a VPN, my Vivaldi is not, so it’s not a VPN issue.
This doesn’t help you but it confirms you are not alone.
However, if I enter this into a private window, it plays: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2051274778753781760/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/DgFq_l1TNDVergoC.mp4
If PieFed sends a referer header, maybe X rejects it because it doesn’t like PieFed. Or maybe it doesn’t like the headers passed by PieFed? I’m guessing.
I ran this curl on my PieFed server and did not get a 403, but rather a 200
curl -I “https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2051274778753781760/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/DgFq_l1TNDVergoC.mp4”
HTTP/2 200I ran the curl on my desktop computer, connected to the VPN, and I got a 200.
So, not my VPN or IP address. If it fails in the browser but works in a curl, maybe it’s the referrer related to hotlink protection??
