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My Lemmy app (Voyager) shows the video, so at least some of us can see it.
+1 for Eternity. Video embedded correctly.
@Deebster There are two pictures too. I know this is just one of those small differences between ActivityPub servers, but I thought there was some workaround I could do, I just forgot what it was.
Huh, so there is. I'm not 100% on how Voyager works - specifically I think (but don't know) that it's got the video because it's connected to the linked URL (your original post in this case) and pulled down data to make the link preview.
If that's right, it means Lemmy isn't handing the media at all.
@Deebster If the background is Pokemon, it's from the work in progress post & not this one.
By "linked" I meant that it's where the URL field of a Lemmy post is pointed at, not the other pages you linked in the post body. Now I'm on a PC again, I see that that link is to the leafy-backgrounded .mp4 (so there's no chance the embedder would have found the other post images if Lemmy didn't present them).
I think the mp4s-not-playing problem is a Mastodon bug/quirk as I've seen it before - neither Firefox nor Chrome can play them when navigated to, but both can play embedded and they work when downloaded. From the console logs, it seems to be a problem with the Content Security Policy stopping the rest of the video loading (since browsers only load the first chunk of a video to allow streaming):
Chrome:
Firefox:
@Deebster I know that Mastodon does weird stuff to videos, but I'm not sure why the images won't work.
I'm not sure how the Mastodon--(ActivityPub)-->Lemmy bit works, but Lemmy doesn't have a concept of a gallery. The first(?) media is your video, and that's showing up in Lemmy. I assume it's dropping the other images since there's no Lemmy structure to put the other media items into.
btw, now I'm on Firefox/Win10 with the default Lemmy frontend and I can see that video and play it from Lemmy's embed, so perhaps most people can see it (as long as they don't click on the .mp4 link).