What's the best way to share videos on lemmy? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've tried posting an h264 mp4 file from a webserver i own, and I noticed that most clients fail to load or outright crash when trying to open the post. Some give an "invalid MIME type" error even though "video/mp4" is a valid one. Posting the link as a hyperlink works, but then you don't get a preview. So what's the best way to share video on lemmy? Is it youtube/imgur or am I doing something wrong?

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[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago

For smaller videos, catbox should do the trick. If it's of the larger persuasion, I'd go with one of the alternatives to youtube, such as peertube

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