this post was submitted on 27 May 2022
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Did you paste the video url into Lemmy search? Because that works just fine.
https://lemmy.ml/post/287927
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.
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
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:
Additionally, one or two random videos display lemmy posts immediately but not all. Not sure why that is...