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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon imputnet

Youtube MP4 encoding seems broken, at least on iOS/macOS

Open videah opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

MP4's that I download from Youtube won't play in QuickTime and can't be saved to the Photos app. VLC can play it so it's not completely broken, but there's something up with the encoding that's causing issues.

videah avatar Aug 16 '22 20:08 videah

youtube mp4s are in uncommon format, so less advanced players can't play them properly (#5)

wukko avatar Aug 17 '22 07:08 wukko

pretty sure any modern browser can play them just fine

wukko avatar Aug 17 '22 07:08 wukko

Just for some context, the reason I encountered this was because I was trying to write an iOS Shortcut that let me download videos from the share sheet to my camera roll, but the camera roll will not accept the video because it does not see it as valid. On iOS safari is the only browser engine so currently neither video option is usable on iOS.

videah avatar Aug 17 '22 12:08 videah

cobalt experience will be worse on ios for as long as apple doesn't allow proper browsers :( maybe this shorcut will work, try it

wukko avatar Aug 17 '22 13:08 wukko

cant do anything about it aside from recommending to use another device that respects your browser choice

wukko avatar Sep 11 '22 10:09 wukko