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altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by moonbat » 2023-05-27, 08:01

Altcensored is a site that hosts videos that were too spicy for removed from Youtube.
This is what one gets in the console on a fresh profile:

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VIDEOJS: ERROR: (CODE:4 MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED) The media could not be loaded, 
either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported. 
Object { code: 4, message: "The media could not be loaded, eith…" }
Sample video.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-05-27, 08:20

Sample video page took a looong time to load but played fine.
So I'm guessing your experience was due to a networking error/aborted video source download.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by gepus » 2023-05-27, 09:20

Took longer to load (about 4-5 s) but the video plays fine.

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The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.
Sometimes I get this message on a certain site (no matter what browser) and as Moonchild pointed out, it's most probably a network error.
In my case the server is simply overloaded because of too many hits.

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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by moonbat » 2023-05-27, 09:36

Understandable, they probably can't match Youtube in terms of handling volume.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by Night Wing » 2023-05-27, 12:25

I cannot get the sample video to appear.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by jobbautista9 » 2023-05-27, 12:38

First time didn't load, then after waiting for like an hour it loaded up for me the second time.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by Moonchild » 2023-05-27, 12:46

it's pretty clear that the site is having more traffic than it can reasonably handle. There's probably a reason they offer torrent downloads of the videos ;)
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by moonbat » 2023-05-28, 04:21

Shame, I had half an idea to include support for it in PMPlayer if they allow embeds.
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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by therube » 2023-05-29, 17:29

I'm thinking there is more to it then just "network error".

Even with a "network failed or because the format is not supported" message (which I am also seeing),
if you open (F12) 'Network Monitor', -> HTML, click on the "guid", JCk5gfRvh8M in this case
(& not, watch?v=JCk5gfRvh8M), then in the Preview tab, click Play, & the video will Play.


Ah, I forgot, I had "nmatrix" enabled.
Disabled that, I the video loaded straight away.

With "nmatrix" enabled, there is a 404 to yt3.ggpht.com (which seems to be something "Google"), so maybe by virtue of that having been blocked ?

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Re: altcensored.com video playback error

Unread post by andyprough » 2023-05-29, 18:57

therube wrote:
2023-05-29, 17:29
Ah, I forgot, I had "nmatrix" enabled.
Disabled that, I the video loaded straight away.

With "nmatrix" enabled, there is a 404 to yt3.ggpht.com (which seems to be something "Google"), so maybe by virtue of that having been blocked ?
I've got eMatrix enabled and the sample video loaded and ran fine. I had to allow some media from archive.org for it to load. Do you have eMatrix on default settings?
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