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anyone else having problems with redgif videos never loading? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have subscribed to various NSFW subs, but all the posted redgifs in those subs never load, showing a black image with an eye with a line though it and NSFW below it.

When I click them, I immediately get an error that says " failed to load redgif video" though my phone does show network activity in mb/s range right after I clicked it.

Anyone else have this issue?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hi, thank you for the feedback! Can you confirm this is on v182? I just checked a couple links and they all seem to load correctly but I'll continue to investigate. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hasnt worked for me for months, get infinite loads or straight up error. Just updated to latest on play store and tried a few links, getting the infinite load.

Still my favorite Lemmy app

Edit: oh actually new version introduced an issue with all images, they load in stretched vertical and squished at first and take a set to go to the right size

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which version are you seeing stretched images on? Is that in card view?

I'll do some more investigation into the infinite load. Please bear with me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm using list reverse. Seems to be related to loading. If I scroll fast it sometimes happens in the preview image too. If I wait a bit before going to open an image it doesn't occur.

Where do you find the version number?

Edit: just dm'd you a screenshot of it occurring

Think I found the version in app settings. 1.0.182

Edit edit: Kept trying more links, it's not 100 % reproducible but I haven't noticed a pattern. For samples, this link doesn't work, (NSFW), but the other post in here talking about the address changes works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~This is what the error looks like for me: version 1.0.177~~ see comment posted later

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~Update: I upgraded to the latest version and I can see redgifs videos in-app now. Now there's a new problem: hitting download on one of them in-app does nothing. It seems there's no option in settings to choose a download folder?~~ I didn't have storage permission activated. They save to internal/pictures/connect. An option to change this would be good.

Also, it seems to save them as a format that cannot be opened by any of my apps... Gallery, Gif Editor, YouCut, Video Convertor and VLC all can't open them. So a way to choose format for saving would be good.

I just noticed every video I've saved with Connect is the same size, 259 bytes. So I guess they're just empty files?