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@prologic@twtxt.net Hm. Audio doesn’t work for me either when I play the H.265 version in a browser. The file host didn’t tamper with the file, and it works fine when I play it in MPV. It turns out it’s not an Apple thing like I expected. Neither Duopoly browser support H.265 (HEVC) playback but Safari should. As far as I can tell it ought to work on your iPhone, but it doesn’t.

Anyway, 2004 called. They want their video compression standard back.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Well, it’s H.265 was introduced in 2013. The real problem is that it’s a proprietary standard but there are free software implementations of both the decoder and the encoder. The browser vendors just don’t want to get sued. I didn’t know that before today.

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