Videos in Twitter are broken

[Matt Ogilvie]

Hey everyone,

This has been driving me nuts for weeks now. The issue is only occurring in Safari (Chrome is fine). Has anyone else encountered this? If it's a bug with the Beta that's fine. If its something else id really like to get it resolved. anyone have any ideas?

 

[Lammers]

I have the same. And it seems I have a wider issue with video playback on Big Sur. Chrome plays videos fine, but I can't play video in many of the Apple apps - including Safari, TV, and Developer. :-( Think it started with Beta 6.

 

[Matt Ogilvie]

Thanks for letting me know. Sounds like its related to the beta so I'll just hang tight until its fixed. Hopefully your issues are also resolved

 

[adrianlondon]

I get video playback errors in Safari and Firefox (when viewing youtube and occasionally reddit videos). Started with one of the betas, so I'm assuming it's a MacOS bug. Sometimes the videos play for a while before erroring, and many people on reddit with the same issue say they can play for longer with ad blockers disabled.

If it's the same issue as in the thread below, it could be a DRM problem.

Apple TV app won't play content since beta 6

Since upgrading to beta 6 I can no longer play anything in the Apple TV app. I press play on something in my library, the screen goes dark for a moment, then I'm back to the thumbnails of the episodes. Rebooted, tried changing streaming settings, still no dice. Plays fine on my iPhone...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[adrianstuartt]

Found the Dev forum thread regarding this issue; https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/659015

 

[ErikGrim]

Found the Dev forum thread regarding this issue; https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/659015

Aha. This would be why AdGuard breaks as well as it's transitioning to NetworkExtensions for filtering in the nightlies.

 

[Matt Ogilvie]

It seems to be fixed with the latest beta

 

[ErikGrim]

Twitter videos are seemingly fixed. YouTube is still broken (AdGuard).