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Ask HN: Why does browser media always fail part-way?

1 pointsby anonymous532about 3 years ago
I have the habit of watching various web videos in small chunks spread across the day.<p>When I come back to a video I get always get an error about media, network and failing and I have to reload the page to make it work.<p>I find it rather weird that the browser can&#x27;t simply say &quot;give me chunk K of this public video&quot;.<p>Youtube appears to work around this issue by auto reloading the page, so there seems to be a fundamental problem about videos.<p>What is happenning? and Why does this limitation exist?

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phillipseamoreabout 3 years ago
Access tokens have expired and it&#x27;s simpler to just reload.