occasional broken videos

[felix9]

Site

phanpy.social

Version

2024.11.22.8f048af

Instance

mastodon.social

Browser

• Chrome Version 132.0.6834.32 (Official Build) beta (64-bit) on Windows 11

Bug description

Sometimes phanpy will show a video preview that's a broken image icon, and clicking on it will show a video player that briefly shows loading, then shows empty.

I think this happens when my instance doesn't have the video yet. (Sometimes it seems like it sometimes never gets the video? But I don't have clear evidence of that.)

This is what the data looks like for one such post. (I've redacted values with "..." because it's followers-only)

"media_attachments": [
                {
                    "id": "...",
                    "type": "unknown",
                    "url": "https://mastodon.social/media_proxy/.../original",
                    "preview_url": "https://mastodon.social/media_proxy/.../small",
                    "remote_url": "https://media.../.../...mp4",
                    "preview_remote_url": null,
                    "text_url": null,
                    "meta": null,
                    "description": "...",
                    "blurhash": "..."
                }
]

the video player fetching https://mastodon.social/media_proxy/.../original gets 404 not found.

if I view the post on mastodon.social, it shows "Preview not available. Click to open." Clicking on that opens a new tab to the remote_url

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Expected behavior

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