all videos are screwed because of conflicting standards and licensing of h264. the google and the apple, made sure that you can't just encode to a single format to be playable by all.

not sure the solution, other than, encoding for each and autodetecting / playing the one depending on the player like all youtub and media hosts do..

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h264 is fine, h265 has licensing issues but for H/W, AV1 is fine too. I think it’s likely a bad H/W encoded video that can easily get corrupted (look bad due to missing key frames or some other crap)

it plays fine in amethyst (this vid)

i just dont know what to pick if i can only pick one format..

Format, go with MP4 (container); codec, go with h264 (wide compatibility) and sound AAC

i was under the impression for a long time that VP8 was the best format for wide playability?