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Edge Dev - strange Video playing issue
I get the new builds as soon as they're released and I'm currently using 77.0.230.2 on Windows 10. Starting with this build when it came out a few days ago:
Videos on Reddit and other sites including Facebook Stories don't play unless I'm constantly scrolling up/down (two finger scroll on touchpad of SurfaceBook 1). If I stop, the video stops. The audio will still work sometimes, but the video doesn't. However, sometimes it works a little bit. For instance, when playing a FB Story, let's say it has 4 clips. After the first clip, about 15% of the left side of the video will freeze. After the 2nd clip, another 10% (now 25% total) will freeze, and so on, until the video ends. This happens a little bit on Reddit. It either displays this way or doesn't display at all and plays audio only.
I've attached a still of the most recent video with the URL here: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/cm3avm/fun_field_trip/
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- Experiencing the same. It's the first roadblock since moving from Chrome to Edge Dev, but it's a showstopper and I'm back on the Google train.
Hopefully this is reviewed and addressed soon.- Of course it'll be reviewed and addressed soon. It's still in alpha/beta stage (depending on who you ask), so there's a lot of work left to do.
I don't know about others, but I'd highly suspect each user does use Edge Dev as their primary browser. They use it to test things and just check it out. I...on the other hand, do use it as my primary browser and only going to Firefox or Chrome when something doesn't work here, which is becoming less and less.
Point being, just don't expect Edge to be as stable and have nowhere near as many features as other browsers that have been in development for many years. - Doesn't fix my issue. Embedded Twitter posts with video don't work nor do they actually works on Twitters site.
Additionally, just like before, videos on Reddit are kind of flaky (https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/). When I view them on that page, the left 15% doesn't update as much and when you move your mouse over the left 1/4 and top 1/4, it stops updating altogether. These are embedded YouTube videos. HOWEVER, when I click on the link for that particular thread to come up, the video plays perfectly. Playing videos on YouTube.com work fine for me.
- I have big problems with Netflix. Virtually no video works (77.0.230.2).
Same problem here but in a slightly different fashion. The video keeps stuttering and breaking up and mouse movements make absolutely no difference. Video in the link
https://vimeo.com/351985244
Update: similar problem with video on twitter as well, and I suspect that would be the case with most videos
https://vimeo.com/351989151
Add to the above: Animated GIF's on Facebook.
Scrolling, they work. Non-scrolling, no work.
- Not sure if similar issue or if the site changed some things, but when I view a news post on WrestleZone.com with an embedded Twitter post that contains a video, it will not play at all. You press play and nothing. Ankit - can you confirm this, also?
