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This is a game from my childhood. At that time it seemed like something magical, and imagination made the hippos real. 😊

I think it's the same as trying to give a sailboat acceleration by trying to blow the sails while standing on deck.

Along with this video, I posted another vid I uploaded to another hosting service. Where do you think he disappeared to? It was removed by a moderator because he didn't like the link to another hosting site.

Dread to stroke such a cat

Did the kind owner leave some food for fluffy?

Thanks for the screenshot. I don't have a working laptop right now to check how Lemmy works on PC. I didn't realise that the display of media in the mobile and desktop version could be different. Probably because some people don't use the mobile version there is a misunderstanding and they don't understand what we are talking about.

However, the problem with displaying videos in the mobile version has been around for a long time. Also, after clicking on the dark square that is displayed instead of the preview, you are prompted to open the video in a new tab as if you were opening another site.

YouTube previews are displayed normally. I suppose this problem occurs only with direct links, example www.site.com/827474/mycats.mp4

As you saw in the screenshots, for the test I used direct links to videos uploaded to reddit and the x0.at service.

I did the test in two different browsers and in two different instances. I've also read in the comments under various video posts that other people are also discovering this problem.

If you enable the "PC version" setting in your mobile browser, it looks like this

https://pixshare.de/images/iLKEtn.jpeg

Just a black square.

Reuploading the video anywhere else would take a ton of time and why do it?

Are you serious?
This is what it looks like in Jerboa https://pixshare.de/images/iLzOo8.jpeg

Here's what the video display looks like on web instances.
https://pixshare.de/images/iLzPDJ.jpeg

I would like to add that we are talking primarily about the ability to insert a direct link with a video located on a third-party service. To do this, you need to display previews/thumbnails, which are not available now.

I may be wrong, but I don't think it will require a lot of additional resources.

Users can save videos to their cloud services, such as gdrive, and insert a direct link to the video when creating a post.

I don't think that displaying previews of videos hosted on third-party services will take more resources than previews of gif images.