I honestly have no idea. I’m on Android and when I clicked it, it took me to my browser and automatically downloaded it. If it wasn’t intentional, I take back the first part of my comment you’re replying to. Does catbox have an integrated media player? If it does, maybe it just doesn’t work for mobile🤷♂️
Nah. Catbox is free hosting without a front end. Mine just opens in a Safari preview on my iPhone. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look elsewhere for a hosting option.
They both appear to be .mov container, but they may have been encoded with different codecs. I’ll have to compare them on my computer tomorrow. Thanks for the input!
Nice! So it seems like it’s the codec. I’ll look into the different formats of .mov files to see the difference between the first two. Thanks for your help!
🤔 maybe it’s a Sync for Lemmy issue? This looks like and image, but when I clicked on it, I downloaded the video for a second time. This seems dangerous.
I don’t like that you linked to a direct download, but I love the cause
That’s odd. It opens in a new browser tab for me. That’s the only way I’ve used catbox. Is there a better way to host it so that doesn’t happen?
I honestly have no idea. I’m on Android and when I clicked it, it took me to my browser and automatically downloaded it. If it wasn’t intentional, I take back the first part of my comment you’re replying to. Does catbox have an integrated media player? If it does, maybe it just doesn’t work for mobile🤷♂️
Nah. Catbox is free hosting without a front end. Mine just opens in a Safari preview on my iPhone. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look elsewhere for a hosting option.
Your link still has me download it in order to watch it, but this link will play in the browser. Maybe it has to do with the file type?
They both appear to be .mov container, but they may have been encoded with different codecs. I’ll have to compare them on my computer tomorrow. Thanks for the input!
How does this .mp4 work for you?
https://files.catbox.moe/uoaybc.mp4
Works perfectly, no download!
Nice! So it seems like it’s the codec. I’ll look into the different formats of .mov files to see the difference between the first two. Thanks for your help!
No problem, troubleshooting is fun
Like this:
🤔 maybe it’s a Sync for Lemmy issue? This looks like and image, but when I clicked on it, I downloaded the video for a second time. This seems dangerous.
It doesn’t render it in a frame to be played? That is weird, and definitely not in-spec with Markdown standard.
This is what happens when I click
When I click my link, it plays instead of downloading. WTF
Whichever app you’re using you should probably file an issue request for that, that isn’t supposed to happen.
!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
it is just a direct link to a file, if your browser / application defaults to downloading mov h264 videos that’s it’s quirk.