The videos don't load with different errors.

[teabaginc]

Hello, from some days I noticed that the videos weren't playing, defaulting to the background image.

When troubleshooting, I found a pattern of Error 403: Forbidden, Error 404: Not found and no decoders available for the videos:

[...]
Error: "Forbidden"
Error: "Forbidden"
Warning: "No decoder available for type 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)hvc1, alignment=(string)au, level=(string)4.1, tier=(string)main, profile=(string)main-10, codec_data=(buffer)010220000000b000000000007bf000fcfdfafa00000f03200001001840010c01ffff022000000300b0000003000003007b18b024210001003c420101022000000300b0000003000003007ba003c08010e4d9c62e4912014e22224b3c929a49cb2449248b7246a923f2888ffc00040005a80808080422000100084401c0252f053240, width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1, colorimetry=(string)bt709, chroma-format=(string)4:2:0, bit-depth-luma=(uint)10, bit-depth-chroma=(uint)10, parsed=(boolean)true'."
Error: "Forbidden"
Error: "Forbidden"
Error: "Not Found"
Warning: "No decoder available for type 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)hvc1, alignment=(string)au, level=(string)4.1, tier=(string)main, profile=(string)main-10, codec_data=(buffer)010220000000b000000000007bf000fcfdfafa00000f03200001001840010c01ffff022000000300b0000003000003007b18b024210001003c420101022000000300b0000003000003007ba003c08010e4d9c62e4912014e22224b3c929a49cb2449248b7246a923f2888ffc00040005a80808080422000100084401c0252f053240, width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1, colorimetry=(string)bt709, chroma-format=(string)4:2:0, bit-depth-luma=(uint)10, bit-depth-chroma=(uint)10, parsed=(boolean)true'."
Error: "Not Found"
Warning: "No decoder available for type 'video/x-h265, stream-format=(string)hvc1, alignment=(string)au, level=(string)4.1, tier=(string)main, profile=(string)main-10, codec_data=(buffer)010220000000b000000000007bf000fcfdfafa00000f03200001001840010c01ffff022000000300b0000003000003007b18b024210001003c420101022000000300b0000003000003007ba003c08010e4d9c62e4912014e22224b3c929a49cb2449248b7246a923f2888ffc00040005a80808080422000100084401c0252f053240, width=(int)1920, height=(int)1080, framerate=(fraction)30000/1001, pixel-aspect-ratio=(fraction)1/1, colorimetry=(string)bt709, chroma-format=(string)4:2:0, bit-depth-luma=(uint)10, bit-depth-chroma=(uint)10, parsed=(boolean)true'."
Error: "Not Found"
Error: "Forbidden"
Error: "Forbidden"
[...]

I am sure I have some decoders missing, but dnf reports that I have all the packages needed already installed, and checking the links in the .m3u had same errors.

[3ximus]

Are you using Fedora ? If so did you setup RPM Fusion for the gstreamer1-libav package ? Otherwise I can't help you much further as I've never used Fedora. These might offer some more pointers: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/h-265-videos-not-playing-in-vlc-or-smplayer-or-videos/78149 https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/unable-to-play-h-265-video/70827

If you do find a solution I would appreciate if you could submit a pull request to update the dependencies on the README.

Cheers!

[teabaginc]

I installed the gstreamer1-libav package from RPM Fusion, but it gives the same errors.

Strangely, installing the videos on my local drive instead of viewing them on the browser works flawlessly.

[3ximus]

Ok that's good at least. Where are you seeing those logs? From previewing the theme? Or from the actual login screen?

[hat3ph]

I installed the gstreamer1-libav package from RPM Fusion, but it gives the same errors.

Strangely, installing the videos on my local drive instead of viewing them on the browser works flawlessly.

I think the apple web server is blocking or throttling the video stream.