Tim: >> YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), >> and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available >> bandwidth). There's no guarantee that two different people receive the >> same data for the same request (the HTML page, nor the video file). >> Especially if you're coming from different areas of the world. >> >> It does make debugging this sort of thing hard. Stephen Morris: > Sure but when the same youtube video that plays fine in Firefox nightly > in Windows doesn't play in "the same version" of Firefox nightly in > fedora and also won't play in fedora in Google Chrome then there is an > issue with linux. I'm not saying it mightn't be, but then it might not. Those are *all* different browsers, YouTube *can* treat each one differently. When a browser connects to a server it identifies itself with browser name, version number, your operating system, and may also claim to be the original Mozilla. Any one of those details can cause the server to give you different content (content negotiation is a two-way thing with browser and server). Here's the browser string from one of mine: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0" A change in any detail can change the server behaviour, including a complete foul up because it tries to be too clever, and doesn't know what to do with a new browser identifier string. > It also doesn't make any difference if I try to play videos from the > American youtube of the Australian youtube. I wonder if you can actually do that without going through something like a VPN? These days, if you try changing domains on an international site, you may always get the local service. I can't remember if this has been brought up, but have you tried flushing the cache? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 15:48:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
