[SOLVED-SORT OF] Video codec issue or Firefox/Librewolf issue?

On a couple topics, @Moonbase59 posted a video. Here and here. This is what I see…

So, it’s either a codec issue or something specific to Firefox/Librewolf because the videos on both posts play fine in Vivaldi.

Not a firefox issue.. I can see that video just fine in firefox!

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Odd. In both Firefox and Librewolf I get that “No video with supported format and MIME type found”

I did a search for that and found the typical suggestions of deleting cache and cookies. Done, still the same.

Didn’t work for me either @UncleSpellbinder, but I suspect it may not be codec related, as trying to open the direct video link, produced a DNS error. I suspect perhaps browser or VPN based filtering.

https://0x0.st/8l8k.44.mp4

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Well, I had no VPN active. So I suspect it may be an ISP issue stopping that domain. Because I just activated Mullvad and it shows just fine…

EDIT: Ahhh yes. The dreaded 0x0.st domain. I’ve already had an issue with that.

Yeah, sorry, I used @cscspastelo to quickly upload it. It might also vanish in a while, these services delete stuff after some time…

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Not the first report of 0x0 being unreachable.

Some ISPs, networks, and even some lists out there (such as those sourced by hblock) block it due to being seen as a source of malicious scripts. Seemingly it just depends on the service and how popular the paste host is.

Note: pastelo of course includes over a dozen pastebin instances;

 ________________________________________________________________________
 | Address                    | Maximum | Retention | Short | URL | SSL |
 |----------------------------+---------+-----------+-------+-----+-----|
 | https://0x0.st             | 512 MiB | 30D - 1Y  |   ☐   |  ☑  |  ☑  |
 | https://0x45.st            |   5 MiB | 7D - 128D |   ☐   |  ☑  |  ☑  |
 | https://0.vern.cc          |   5 GiB | 30D - 1Y  |   ☑   |  ☑  |  ☑  |
 | https://basedbin.fly.dev   | 100 MiB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://bpa.st             | 512  KB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://dpaste.com         |   1  MB | 1D - 365D |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://envs.sh            | 512 MiB | 30D - 90D |   ☑   |  ☑  |  ☑  |
 | https://gcg.sh             |   1 MiB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://microbin.eu        |  50  MB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://mystb.in           | 300  KB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://oshi.ec            |   5 GiB | 1D - 90D  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://paste.c-net.org    |  50  MB |   180D    |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://paste.cachyos.org  | 100 MiB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://paste.rs           |   4  MB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | https://paste.swurl.xyz    |  50  MB |  unknown  |   ☑   |  ☐  |  ☑  |
 | http://pb1n.de             | 128  KB |  unknown  |   ☐   |  ☐  |  ☐  |
 |____________________________|_________|___________|_______|_____|_____|

Maybe @UncleSpellbinder can tell us if any of these is reachable on their end. :innocent:

It is blocked if you’re using hblock :

grep 0x0.st /etc/unbound/blocklist.conf
local-zone: "0x0.st" always_nxdomain

edit: just noticed cscs mentioned it.

I guess I could mention that hblock has an allowlist though, ex;

~/.config/hblock/allow.list

# A domain on each line creates exceptions on next run of hblock 
0x0.st
envs.sh

I could use it, but in my case, hblock is only meant to download the list, then it’s converted to be used by unbound .

Of those listed above, these do not work for me:

https://pb1n.de/
https://0.vern.cc/
https://envs.sh/
https://gcg.sh/
https://oshi.ec/
https://paste.rs/
https://pb1n.de/