don't require HLS playback: mp4 for all videos

ghost commented

2022-05-21 21:33:20 -04:00

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Similar issues: #263, #464

Would be nice to be able to get MP4 format for all videos. When you go through the Real™ Twitter API, you can get the MP4 link for any video, not sure if you can through however Nitter is doing the scraping. Example:

nitter link: https://nitter.net/sahilkapur/status/1527092111195226114
twitter link: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1527092111195226114
direct mp4: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1527078073073651712/pu/vid/1280x592/co45-zhhUMy1vBC1.mp4?tag=12

For nitter, you end up with a plethora of .m3u8 and .m4s URLs after HLS playback is enabled. You cannot play any non-GIF videos without HLS playback enabled.

Similar issues: #263, #464 --- Would be nice to be able to get MP4 format for all videos. When you go through the Real™ Twitter API, you can get the MP4 link for any video, not sure if you can through however Nitter is doing the scraping. Example: * nitter link: https://nitter.net/sahilkapur/status/1527092111195226114 * twitter link: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1527092111195226114 * direct mp4: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1527078073073651712/pu/vid/1280x592/co45-zhhUMy1vBC1.mp4?tag=12 For nitter, you end up with a plethora of `.m3u8` and `.m4s` URLs after HLS playback is enabled. You cannot play any non-GIF videos without HLS playback enabled.

zedeus commented

2022-05-22 18:20:28 -04:00

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This is implemented and (almost) fully working, but requires an implementation of video streaming I haven't gotten flawless yet due to a weird quirk with how Twitter's CDN/cache works. I want to look into it again soon, I made the implementation about two years ago.

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ghost commented

2022-05-22 19:35:10 -04:00

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I look forward to it. \o/

ericpa06 commented

2022-06-08 03:03:35 -04:00

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This would be only thing remaining to make Nitter perfect 👌 Hope you guys are able to implement it soon.

zedeus commented

2022-06-08 03:37:35 -04:00

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It's implemented here #634 but needs more testing since Twitter's mp4 streams seemingly aren't meant to be streamed. Weird handling of cache misses is necessary by retrying requests for up to several seconds.

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