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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by illiad » 2016-08-07, 08:20

so any idea of release time for V27?? :)
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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by illiad » 2016-08-07, 09:12

given that the MP4 version works OK in V26.3.3 I am currently using.... Is it possible to change the filespec in prefs somewhere to m3u8 ???

Yes, I know 'options, applications' but it is set to 'ask' so that is not it... :\
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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by lnstar » 2016-08-19, 02:46

why do twitter videos play in the latest version of Firefox but not Pale Moon?

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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by CharmCityCrab » 2016-08-19, 19:22

Just for clarity, HLS may be purely an Apple thing as stated above, but .m3u8 is the default export format for playlist files from Sony Media Go, and is readable by the Fiio X1 audio player, among others. Granted, my Android phone seems to have no idea what to do with them, and I switch to the more standard .m3u except with a very large playlist that .m3u can't render correctly, meaning the playlist goes on my audio player and not my phone, but... Not purely an Apple tihng. :)

Also, having had a chance to edit these files to correct file paths to render on audio players and such where the paths are different from my PC, I've opened these in a text editor and people who are saying they are absolutely meant to render playlists are correct. If you look at what you get when you open them in a text editor, it's very obvious even to someone like me who is code illiterate. It is very odd that Twitter is using this format as a casing to play single videos in. My guess is that Twitter may be laying the groundwork for some sort of autoplay to the next video type of thing, or to creating video playlists that include ads before, during, or after the posted videos. Otherwise, I agree that it doesn't make much sense for what they are doing.

Here is an example of what a .m3u8 file looks like when opened in a text editor:

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:322,Right Now
..\Music\Van Halen\The Best Of Both Worlds [Disc 2]\2-12 Right Now.m4a
#EXTINF:211,Start Me Up
..\Music\The Rolling Stones\Tattoo You (Remastered)\01 Start Me Up.m4a
#EXTINF:219,I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
..\Music\The Proclaimers\Sunshine On Leith\01 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).m4a
#EXTINF:243,Eye of the Tiger
..\Music\Survivor\Eye Of The Tiger\01 - Eye of the Tiger.mp3
#EXTINF:168,Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky")
..\Music\Bill Conti\Rocky (30th Anniversary Edition) [Origin\01 Gonna Fly Now (Theme from _Rocky_.m4a
#EXTINF:170,Louie Louie (Alternate Version)
..\Music\Motorhead\The Best of Motorhead [Explicit]\1-07 Louie Louie (Alternate Version).mp3
#EXTINF:177,Rock & Roll Part 2
..\Music\Compilations\Stadium Jams_ Original Masters\02 Rock & Roll Part 2.m4a
#EXTINF:177,Real American (Hulk Hogan)
..\Music\Compilations\WWE Anthology (The Federation Years)\1-02 Real American (Hulk Hogan).m4a
#EXTINF:255,Rock You Like A Hurricane
..\Music\Scorpions\Scorpions 20th Century Masters\01 Rock You Like A Hurricane.m4a
#EXTINF:179,You're the Best
..\Music\Compilations\The Karate Kid (The Original Motion Pict\10 You're the Best.m4a
#EXTINF:224,It's My Life
..\Music\Bon Jovi\Crush\01 It's My Life.m4a
#EXTINF:244,Jump
..\Music\Van Halen\The Best Of Both Worlds [Disc 1]\1-13 Jump.m4a
#EXTINF:221,Working for the Weekend (Remastered 2006)
..\Music\Loverboy\Get Lucky\01 Working for the Weekend (Remaster.m4a
#EXTINF:192,House Fire
..\Music\Charm City Devils\Let's Rock n' Roll\02 House Fire.m4a
#EXTINF:237,Take Me Out (Album Version)
..\Music\Franz Ferdinand\Franz Ferdinand\03 - Take Me Out (Album Version).mp3
#EXTINF:212,Panama
..\Music\Van Halen\The Best Of Both Worlds [Disc 2]\2-01 Panama.m4a
#EXTINF:257,U Can't Touch This
..\Music\MC Hammer\MC Hammer_ Greatest Hits\01 U Can't Touch This.m4a
#EXTINF:130,It's Friday Night and I Wanna Get Laid
..\Music\The Experiments\What Kind of Animal\10_its_friday_night_and_i_wanna_get_laid.mp3
#EXTINF:293,I'm Gonna Win
..\Music\Foreigner\4 [Expanded]\07 - I'm Gonna Win.mp3
#EXTINF:329,It Can Happen
..\Music\Yes\90125 [Expanded]\03 - It Can Happen.mp3
#EXTINF:266,Life Is A Highway
..\Music\01 - Life Is A Highway.mp3
#EXTINF:189,Right Here Right Now
..\Music\Jesus Jones\Doubt\05 Right Here Right Now.m4a
#EXTINF:246,Go
..\Music\Asia\Astra\01_001_Go(Asia)_256.mp3
#EXTINF:189,Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)
..\Music\Rob Zombie\The Sinister Urge\04 Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kr.m4a
#EXTINF:208,Can't Slow Down
..\Music\Foreigner\Can't Slow Down\01 Can't Slow Down.m4a
#EXTINF:208,Burn It To The Ground
..\Music\Nickelback\Dark Horse\02 - Burn It To The Ground.mp3
#EXTINF:262,Get Up
..\Music\Mike + The Mechanics\Word Of Mouth\01 Get Up.m4a
#EXTINF:208,Highway To Hell
..\Music\AC_DC\Highway To Hell\01 Highway To Hell.m4a
#EXTINF:206,Adrenaline
..\Music\Shinedown\Amaryllis\01 - Adrenaline.mp3
#EXTINF:185,Race to the End
..\Music\Jon Anderson\Race to the End\01 - Race to the End.mp3
#EXTINF:364,Burn (Remastered LP Version)
..\Music\Deep Purple\Burn\01 - Burn (Remastered LP Version).mp3
#EXTINF:122,We Will Rock You
..\Music\01 - We Will Rock You.mp3
#EXTINF:267,Fight To Win
..\Music\World Trade\World Trade\05 Fight To Win.mp3
I should note that it doesn't even contain those music files- it points to already existing music files in certain directories. If you delete the file, it can't play those songs (and some music players/software will even show the playlist without said songs even written on the screen, realizing that the underlying code is pointing to something that isn't there and "cleaning it up" for you so that you only see what will actually play).

Uh, also that's just my "Get Psyched Mix". I actually have much broader musical tastes than that. :) I like all sorts of things.

This isn't the really large one I referenced as needing to put in this format either- that one has thousands of songs, which would have been a bit much for an example post, so I just exported a short one (30-40 songs) in that format and cut and paste in the code box to give a more succinct example.
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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by half-moon » 2016-08-19, 21:35

lnstar wrote:why do twitter videos play in the latest version of Firefox but not Pale Moon?
Because Twitter is trying to push a playlist file as a video file, and that's not the right way to do things at all.

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Re: Twitter broken

Unread post by illiad » 2016-08-21, 12:19

lnstar wrote:why do twitter videos play in the latest version of Firefox but not Pale Moon?
it rather depends if you like that stripped down, awful looking thing... :D

IE11, Opera, older version of FF doesn't play it, I thought even Chrome would not play it, until I left it in the background while checking other things for 30 mins, when I next checked it was playing... (bandwidth probs??)
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