UPDATE: Sites are back online, that was quick!
(https://fedi.video is unaffected, so feel free to have a browse round there if you're interested in videos on the Fediverse.)
So I though I'd look at Fedi.Video and see what I've been missing.
The main thing is that there is a looping circle in the middle of the screen. The video plays fine, but you have this constantly looping symbol. (Dairy Milk Review). It displays at regular and full screen resolution.
Hmm... that's odd. Are you viewing on a phone or computer?
Have you tried reloading the site?
@feditips@mstdn.social @number6@fosstodon.org happens to me also on several devices.
Could you give some examples of the devices this happens on?
And the specific videos?
Each video is playing from its home server, so different videos may behave differently.
I was using chromium.
The good news is that it works better with Firefox. The bad news is that it really grabs system resources -- like 10% of the CPU. I think this is because the "peering" part is actually working. Like 500 byte upload on FF compared to 50 byte on chromium.
Eventually, it finishes buffering (0 up/ 0 down) on FF.
You know, if I could just download the video it would probably take fewer resources.
I use Firefox on Linux with a cheap laptop and hadn't noticed problems, which OS is this on?
I'm wondering if it is behaving badly on some setups...
About the chromium spinner problem, looks like this has been reported before and is fixed on the updated version of PeerTube:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5927
Unfortunately my managed hosting provider hasn't updated to the latest version yet, I will ask them about updating.
This was my first time trying. These were just the first two I randomly picked.
This one eventually worked after a reload:
https://fedi.video/w/94Tmh4cFFj2D4dvNxmyDNw
This one never worked under chromium:
https://fedi.video/w/mor9NWYwYMHmrHVfoiewqG
You can see the little spinner that never goes away. I turned off my add-blockers in case that was the issue.
It did work under Firefox but was also very CPU intensive.
Hmm... weird...
Thanks for the feedback and testing of this
Was this on a computer?
@feditips
I'm currently on desktop (linux). Reloading the page helped with the Dairy Milk Review, but not with "Vegerami", which shows the circle even when the video is paused.
It probably has something to do with federation and buffering. I would rather deal with a choppy feed then have a non-stop spiralling icon on the very centre of the screen. Even putting the icon off to a corner would be an improvement.
It seems like behind the scenes FV is not retaining its buffers.