No audio for rxddit video embeds #55
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Reddit does not provide videos with audio out of the box, it uses a streaming system which combines an audio and video stream at runtime. An embed service cannot do this, it can only provide a link to a video file or player directly. For some videos we do have audio, but especially longer ones are not possible to do through embeds, because it would require manually re-encoding the stream while the embed is loaded. Since this is hosted on Cloudflare workers, re-encoding a video is out of the question, and it would likely be too slow to do for longer videos anyway. |
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How does vxReddit handle it? Try this one for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1ifj2nc |
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They download and manually convert the videos, which only works for some cases where the video is short enough. I can't do that on cloudflare workers, since they are not designed for this kind of task (and downloading videos does not scale well for a free service). |
Embedded videos using rxddit don't have audio.
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