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[–] TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did a random search for more up-to-date peertube instances to see if I could get anything to load. Much like Masto, I'm seeing accounts but none of their posts, and searching individual videos turns up with nothing.

For example:

https://lemmy.ml/c/monsieur_musique@peertube.stream

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you paste the video url into Lemmy search? Because that works just fine.

https://lemmy.ml/post/287927

[–] TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Huh, that video wasn't there the first time and it displayed them as having 0 posts. Does it only federate after you search for the video?

To give you an example, this is my result of trying 3 different urls for a video on mobile browser, unless I'm missing some method of directly accessing the mp4.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your first link is an embed, thats not right. The second looks fine, it should work. Paste it and i can see whats wrong. Third link is in another format, so thats maybe why it doesnt work. Below is the link which worked for me:

https://peertube.stream/videos/watch/29c08742-2a3b-4718-8a9c-7448c51bd741

[–] TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Okay, I figured it out. On my end you have to convert an "embed" code into a "watch" code by manually typing into the url. On that updated instance on mobile they use peertube's built-in link shortener which generates "w" links instead.

After a lot of experimentation I found both "watch" and "w" links work, but there's an awkward/newbie unfriendly procedure to it:

  1. Paste "embed" link and convert OR paste "w" link
  2. Search returns no results
  3. Refresh the page or Search a random word to reset the search box
  4. If using the random word method, put the video url you just deleted back in and search a second time
  5. Discover that a Lemmy post generated because of your first search, but wasn't displaying until you reload the page.

Additionally, one or two random videos display lemmy posts immediately but not all. Not sure why that is...