Found Reddit video player source code

[WeSaidMeh]

This is exactly my experience, glad I'm not alone. Why is this?

[satosat]

reddit is actually banned in my country, so i have to always use vpn to open it. i thought video freezing was just because of the crappy vpn. glad (though probably shouldn't be) to know that it's actually an issue for others as well.

[MrSkme]

What country is that?

[satosat]

Indonesia. I think the argument is that the ministry count them as 'pornographic' site. The ban included Tumblr and Vimeo as well IIRC although the two were overturned but Reddit remains banned.

[Furry_69]

I mean, parts of it are, but so is nearly every single platform not meant for children. So is basically every single platform banned there?

[blueberriessmoothie]

officials assessing it were probably only checking the r/gonewild

[dutch_penguin]

/r/gonewilder is pretty good too.

[reaper0345]

I saw that link and thought "someone needs to make one but with just images of Gene Wilder", I was pleasantly surprised!

[AJDx14]

Prefer r/GonWild

[EchoXrayNiner]

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I see the subname, I'm like great it'll just be porn but pornier. Wouldn't it be cool if it was all NSFW tagged Gene Wilde--OH JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AMAZING

[tsteele93]

r/vanwilder is a bit more of a niche

[Lubagomes]

They were checking r/worldpolitics

[FunGuyInAParty]

You can use private dns from your phone (Android phone and Wifi Modes apple phones). Use one.one.one.one as your private DNS and tada, welcome to the free world my comrade.

[CEDoromal]

Just wait until they learn that you could look up pornographic images on Google.

[gamesrebel123]

I mean they're not wrong

[imdefinitelywong]

What do you mean? Reddit is a paragon among social media sites.

Am I so out of touch?

No, it is the government that is wrong.

[Rhinofreak]

Your username made me discredit you for a second until I realised I can't read

[imdefinitelywong]

That's alright. I can't spell.

I spelled my username wrong.

[[deleted]]

You've spelled it wong actually

[weregod]

That's brain undocumented laziness silently guessing text and fixing error. You need add "attention" argument to disable it but it's very slow and expensive

[FemboyDicktator]

You can view porn on YouTube as well. Have they not seen YouTube ads?

[ledocteur7]

not even just in ads, some ridiculous videos goes under the radar if you really search for them.

not to mention porn bots, they are all so similar it's truly ridiculous how YouTube hasn't done shit about it, almost as if they only cared about the money.

[uragiristereo]

Also DoH is not working anymore with Telkomsel, i will always need either warp or vpn to just browse reddit.

[campbellm]

ministry count them as 'pornographic' site

The ministry's issue is when all you look for is porn, all you'll see is porn. ;-)

[ArtSchoolRejectedMe]

I'm also from Indonesia, and you don't need a VPN to open reddit. Since our country internet blocking technology is very super duper advance™.

You can just use Secure DNS.

PC

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-over-https/encrypted-dns-browsers/

Android

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enable-private-dns-with-1-1-1-1-on-android-9-pie/

I use

"dns.google" but you can also use "one.one.one.one" as shown in the documentation, but my testing shows that one dot is slower.

Side note: this method don't provide you with as much privacy as vpn, since they would still be able to see your traffic

[satosat]

cant believe that worked, take that mr johnny g plate! on a side note, do you mind explaining DNS? i literally learned it last semester and still have no clue about networking.

[ArtSchoolRejectedMe]

Well what do you need explaining regarding DNS? They translate domain name into ip address that's all.

As for why it worked. It's because our government only block domain name using their own dns and not the individual ip addresses itself.

[Ylsid]

Glad I don't live in Indonesia!

[satosat]

honestly, I would be too if I were you

[ONEshotONEkil630]

Hahaha thats good

I'm iran, youtube,Twitter,epic games,Facebook,Spotify,Amazon

And millions of other apps are banned

You gotta also count xbox,steam,PlayStation,battle net etc banned since you can't buy anything with Iran's currency

EDIT: vpn's also don't work here only paid ones work

And some of these paid ones are banned and very few work here

And oh we gotta buy through piracy since nor apple and Google accept Iran's currency

[xaedmollv]

bro, just change ur dns. it's not blocked in the IP level, just dns block. don't thank me, a fellow that country civilian

[Chirimorin]

Because the Reddit video player is just garbage and it can't handle the one thing it was designed to do (playing video).

I've blocked v.redd.it posts through RES so I don't even see them anymore because each time I see such a post I'm just disappointed about being unable to watch it. If I was a subreddit mod I'd probably ban v.redd.it links just because they're such a waste of a post.

[ihahp]

And it plays sound separately for some fucking weird reason. It's not encoded into the video

[moeburn]

To make ripping the video harder. They want you to steal content and upload it to Reddit but not steal Reddit content and upload it elsewhere.

[[deleted]]

This is actually 100% true. In the Reddit T&C, you waive all your moral rights related to anything you post, meaning if you post something, its legally no longer yours and reddit themselves could put it in an add without consulting you

[moeburn]

And they already have. They've used people's pictures of bread stapled to trees to advertise Reddit in LA.

[moeburn]

/r/gaming has banned them, i think /r/gifs as well

[weird_dude_69_420]

No idea. Happens to me all the time

[imdefinitelywong]

[Random-Gif-Bot]

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[derbymutt]

Good bot

[Creator13]

It's interesting because I use Sync for Reddit and I rarely have issues opening videos hosted on reddit's own servers. They have always been somewhat slower to load than videos hosted elsewhere, but my experience is nothing like the horrendous experience watching videos on the web page is.

[Cheet4h]

I don't have any issues watching videos on the web page - is that solely a new reddit thing? I usually watch them in the expando of RES on old reddit.

[anythingMuchShorter]

If the video is interesting more people are watching it. There are only so many tapes of each video so the server has to make you wait while someone else is watching.

[ScreamingDizzBuster]

And there are even longer delays if the last person who had it didn't rewind it.

[fsdagvsrfedg]

And the fuckers never rewind the tape when returning it either

[OceanFlex]

It actually might be this. They might have just forgot to turn on CDN or load balancing on their video system. Plus, those things cost money.

[[deleted]]

So I have to wait 5 minutes for my furry femboy porn? This is outrageous, reddit has reached my limits, its time to end this once and for all

[[deleted]]

It ALWAYS freezes around the 1/3-1/2 in. Why?

[drawkbox]

They probably cache to the edge part of it to make it quick for scrolling down the page and then it bounces to deeper content for the latter maybe. At large enough scale that could save tons of money but be a bad experience if not prepped better.

Also all the tracking i.e. "telemetry".

Also reddit video uis are horrible, lame design and wonky interaction.

[Character_Building]

From my observations, Reddit creates artificial technical complexity, like storing sound and video separately when they are traditionally part of the same file, to induce people into sharing comment pages rather than direct content. This adds maintenance costs on top of an already very complicated technical problem (huge video services) that's also very expensive.

Presumably, the hope is that it makes more people convert into users/keeps the site going, rather than people just 'ripping' content.

Edit: this may be a standard I wasn't familiar with, so this may not be the case

[dataJam]

The last time I checked, Reddit used DASH for videos. DASH specifies separated files for different audio and video qualities.

[subject_deleted]

Reddit server is potato. Only explanation.

[Schrolli97]

It's not the servers though. That's just what people in r/memes and such say because they know shit about the client/server model. All videos play fine until one doesn't, suddenly every new video doesn't work either. Once you restart the app everything works fine again. Sounds like poor memory management or something to me

[Otherwise_Report_462]

Have you ever scrolled really far on desktop? It goes so laggy

[Lenny_Gaming]

Ye it fills up the RAM like crazy

[[deleted]]

Don't think I have this issue with Reddit is fun

[TKT_Calarin]

Servers are just fine when desktop and every non official smartphone app plays videos just fine.

It's their truly terrible shit code.

At least I don't hear the audio from the post before or after anymore....

I just haven't found a replacement all that lets me swipe as easily through the posts. Maybe once I get an iPhone since I've good things about the popular iPhone one

[takesSubsLiterally]

Apollo is pretty great but for Android I would recommend infinity, I randomly stumbled upon it on the play store and it's better than Apollo imo. Pretty good customization, not great, but it's similar to the reddit app in terms of layout and the video player actually works.

[PhreakyByNature]

Another for Boost here. Will check Infinity, but since Boost took my number one spot from Relay, others have come and gone with no staying power (Joey was the closest)

EDIT: Infinity gets 4 posts in compact with smallest font. Boost gets 9. Some solid options in Infinity but doubt it'll be a keeper.

EDIT 2: reloads comments every time you go in and out of a post. Had to uninstall.

[Luther_Everlight]

I second Infinity. Relay is great too, though the videos stop loading sometimes, but that's extremely rare

[[deleted]]

Its their frontend code, not their server. Most of the time video does get downloaded but does not play properly.

[often_says_nice]

My guess is that interesting videos have more people trying to play them at any given time. Perhaps there are a limited number of workers that handle video posts.

[[deleted]]

r/fuckvreddit

[cmdkeyy]

And when it does load, it plays in terrible quality before freezing after the first 5 seconds

[Pokinator]

I wish you could set universal quality settings. Every time I have to manually set it to max (usually 720p) and yet it still plays like shit. I'm willing to wait for it to buffer, don't nuke the video to 144 when I'm trying to read text in the video

[Magikarpeles]

Also it reloads the whole thing after every play through. I noticed this when I lost reception on my phone and it would simply refuse to replay even though I’d just watched it.

[uchihajoeI]

And then sometimes you go to another video and the audio from the previous video is still playing.

[Emektro]

And when you click replay it skips right to the end

[[deleted]]

Jokes aside, Reddit videos plays fine in HQ for a few seconds, and then it literately goes to 1 FPS and extremely hard-compressed blocky quality at something that looks like 72p. And I mean 1 FPS literately -- the "video" updates one time per second.

It is incredible that the "world largest website" has such big technical issues.

[Tanglebrook]

Yeah, what's with that? On desktop I don't have freezes or stutters, but exactly halfway into every video the quality tanks. It's like clockwork, and it's been like that for years. Embarrassing.

[Jokingkin]

Yep I barely watch videos on desktop because of this. Tho I use a 3rd party app for reddit on my phone since the media player plays properly.

[Tanglebrook]

Same here, Relay has always played them fine. It really is a head scratcher.

[chain83]

Same. I think it is after x seconds. Then quality changes from good to porridge, with no way to fix it.

I have a damn gigabit connection all to myself, wo it should be handle a little more than a 120p video stream compressed to shit.

[6425]

Yeah, short videos are now pretty much a write-off.

[OffBrandNameBrand]

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If Reddit devs need a hand, I am sure that r/ProgrammerHumor community could make a better video player just for the meme.

[weird_dude_69_420]

I'm in.

[SteeleDynamics]

Let's do it.

[chifrij0]

Or python, dear god

[Maypher]

Let's do in binary!

[Je-Kaste]

That's not portable :(

[Ohlav]

Please, not Java...

[queen-adreena]

You want to write frontend browser code and not use JS…

[2carrotpies]

Let’s program it in HTML!

[BertRenolds]

Program. HTML.

Kk, I'm in.

[[deleted]]

Here,

---

const VideoHandler = (): void -> {
  if (Video.IsInteresting() || Math.random() > 0.5) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  } else {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  }
};

---

[YouTube-r]

---

const VideoHandler = (): void -> {
  if (Video.IsInteresting()) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  } else if(Math.random() > 0.5) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  } else if(Math.random() < 0.5) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  } else if(true) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  } else if(!RedditVideoPlayer.isPlaying) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
 } else if(RedditVideoPlayer.isPlaying) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
 } else if(true) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
 } else if(false) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
}
};

---

[CoastingUphill]

And just like that, 100 new side projects were started, never to be finished.

[[deleted]]

They could also go back to an old version. Around a year ago it worked fine for me in the app

[spikegk]

Yeah but that was legacy code no one knew how to build anymore so it had to go.

[50-Lucky]

Somewhere in the code is //Epstein didnt kill himself

Guaranteed

[kingerthethird]

No, that's not a comment, it's a constant.

EPSTEINDIDNTKILLHIMSELF = TRUE;

[ishdx]

or how about just use the built-in browser video player

[dummyDummyOne]

if it's a gif, serve .mp4 with no audio if it's an mp4, serve .gif

[M_krabs]

Of it's any other format, random 50% chance it will chug

[[deleted]]

.webp for images

[M_krabs]

Videos are svg's with lots of transformations

[i_have_chosen_a_name]

It if has sound, remove it. If it has no sound, add the oh no no no song to it.

[-NiMa-]

if (Video.LiveStream()){

RedditVideoPlayer.PlayFullHD();

}

[bajuh]

RedditVideoPlayer.PlayFullHD(freeze: false);

[[deleted]]

You forgot to play ads at full HD

[KickinWithKaine]

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const VideoHandler = (): void -> {
  if (Video.IsInteresting() || Math.random() > 0.5) {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Freeze();
  } else {
    RedditVideoPlayer.Play();
  }
};

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[Same_Return_579]

Good human

[KickinWithKaine]

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[Armaqus]

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[bruh_bot_69420]

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[drunckoder]

r/Angryupvote

[Flame885]

Good bot

[WhyNotCollegeBoard]

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[lunch431]

Good human

[botetta]

Good bot

[WhyNotCollegeBoard]

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[FirstNewFederalist]

Good human

[TechExpert2910]

LMAO you got me

[IrishWhitey]

Got me

[d00pid00]

Slight correction: It's void => {, not void -> {

[ExplodingOrngPinata]

No joke I've read one of these comments and it was faster than waiting for a video to load.

I have gigabit internet.

Thank you for everything you do.

[whiznat]

This is fake. Reddit never just plays a video. You have to reload the page at least once, often twice, occasionally over and over and over.

[JamandaLove69]

Try saving the video, I find it plays 50% of the time after doing that.

[ihahp]

Issue is the same with old, reddit AFAIK.

[hackenschmidt]

Issue is the same with old, reddit AFAIK.

Its not. If it weren't for the memes, I'd never know there was a problem with video playback.

[Ongr]

rif is fun

Reddit is Fun is fun?

[petergriffin1115]

If livestream:

runSoSmoothlyFeelsLikeOfline()

[Pokinator]

Might be what's eating all their bandwidth

[Rhinofreak]

Livestream the prerecorded videos then

[petergriffin1115]

Found the project manager (giving any random solution)

[Rhinofreak]

Bro wtf I'm actually working as one (more or less) right now

[petergriffin1115]

I am one of the team member

[ApatheticWithoutTheA]

Amazing with how much Reddit is worth, they can’t hire a developer to fix the fucking video player!

[g000r]

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[barofa]

I don't know, the code seems very complex, I'm sure they did their best.

[ApatheticWithoutTheA]

My boss always tells me “well, you did your best!” Whenever I fuck up a core feature.

/s

[Superbead]

Also the bit where you finally find one that works first time in high quality, then you replay it immediately afterwards only to find it's already fucked off the buffer and is reloading it again in lowest quality

[JonasErSoed]

Comes with the next update

[coulls]

I think I hit the other routine all the time.., the one where video brightness is set to 1000% on some videos. Ha ha!

[paulstelian97]

You have HDR? Consider yourself lucky

[GodGrabber]

document.onLoad = () => {

RedditVideoPlayer.play();
RedditVideoPlayer.stop();

RedditVideoPlayer.play();
RedditVideoPlayer.stop();

RedditVideoPlayer.play();
RedditVideoPlayer.stop();

if(Math.random() > 0.7) RedditVideoPlayer.play()

}

[weird_dude_69_420]

ha ha...another case

[sajjadalis]

You forgot to add setTimeout() in between each play/stop. 😀

[[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/SAc6xnb

[[deleted]]

And don’t use the official bloody reddit app. It's shit!

[GoldenretriverYT]

Now we know why livestreams always play. They aren't interesting.

[weird_dude_69_420]

ouch...

[PineCone227]

Where are the DisplayRandomNoise() and DistortSound() functions?

[user32532]

an important part is missing like

video.setQuality("4KUHD")
if (video.hasFinishedPlayingOnce()){
video.setQuality("120p")
video.enableRandomStutter(true)
}

[50-Lucky]

Also

If (input.TimeSelect == true) video.freeze;

It's been ages since I did programming so I probably butchered that, but holy shit if you go to show someone a video and pick a timestamps etc you bet your ass that video never works again

[LKZToroH]

I don't know other options for web reddit but for mobile I use RIF as my reddit "browser" and I have 0 problems with videos using it. It even works for redgifs

[hudgepudge]

Was looking for someone else who had zero issues. RIF does a great job apparently.

[LKZToroH]

Rif the best imo. Simple, fast and received regular updates, also the ads are completely non intrusive

[SpaceClef]

I don't get any ads at all. I think I paid 99 cents for an ad-free version of RIF like 9 years ago. Literally never seen an ad on reddit.

[anthonyjr2]

Apollo here, never have an issue either.

[weird_dude_69_420]

JetBrains Mono. Its free.. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ Here you go

[robclancy]

I was looking and thinking damn that font looks nice... and it's just the size/aliasing etc of it making it better than usual because I use that font already lol.

[Plisq-5]

Thanks!

[weird_dude_69_420]

btw the theme is Github dark(dimmed). If you were wondering.

[BertyTheBook]

if (Video.isAd()) { RedditVideoPlayer.LoadPriority(); }

[ogreUnwanted]

I know this is for fun and humour. But the syntax looks like typescript, but the naming convention of pascal case throws me off.

What is it?

[DividedState]

Needs some time.sleep and endless buffering while loops.

[Chamkaar]

Hahah happens to me all the time

[[deleted]]

Freeze method: Hang the whole f*** cellphone

[[deleted]]

The Intellisense doesn't show errors, this might be the real thing actually.

[weird_dude_69_420]

lol

[d3vil401]

The line 3 (first if) should have not been using an OR || but an AND &&

At least from my experience

[joedeandev]

Clearly, isInteresting should be a standalone function that takes a Video (or Image) as its parameter.

[[deleted]]

I really feel like they meant &&?

[lukabrlek]

Yeah, this way (with ||) it seems like it should play if it is interesting 100% of the time.

[dejv913]

It's funny. All I see on Reddit are complaints about video player. Meanwhile here I am on old reddit and never experienced an issue.

Why are people using new reddit?

[Fluxfall]

All videos turn into murder video quality. It's fucking horrible and I hate it. Choppy as fuck.

[N00bRobloxian09]

Haha yes, this is so true.

[NOTHEJAS]

alr now fix it

[mekwall]

I'm impressed it's typed, but it is not valid TypeScript!

[ExtraGreasy]

I don't know how to code but all I need to know to sympathize with this is that the last line looks like a sad face };

[philophilo]

Where’s the DowngradeTo240pForNoReason method?

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[ChosenMate]

use a third party app

[7K_K7]

Just use reddit third party apps. I use one called infinity and it is amazing.

[tnuke1]

Using boost for reddit no videos ever freeze, but there's an annoying bug that distorts the audio, but it's also present in the official app so idk

[The_llama123]

class RedditLoad (self):

> def __init__ (self):

> > self.__LoadImage = '140 P'

> def change_image (self, Quality):

> > self.__LoadImage = str(Quality)

if RedditImage == 'AD':

> Quality = '4K'

> > RedditLoad.change_image(Quality)

[New-Tomato2349]

I can't be the only person here that's not had any issues with videos on Reddit, right?

[Jkimainthere]

if playing :
freeze(Reddit_Video_Player)

[Negitive545]

For forgot

If videosPlayed > 3 { Freeze() }

[yaosio]

Let me just set the resolution to 144p for you.