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View submission: Found Reddit video player source code
From my observations, Reddit creates artificial technical complexity, like storing sound and video separately when they are traditionally part of the same file, to induce people into sharing comment pages rather than direct content. This adds maintenance costs on top of an already very complicated technical problem (huge video services) that's also very expensive.
Presumably, the hope is that it makes more people convert into users/keeps the site going, rather than people just 'ripping' content.
Edit: this may be a standard I wasn't familiar with, so this may not be the case
Comment by dataJam at 20/05/2022 at 11:21 UTC
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The last time I checked, Reddit used DASH for videos. DASH specifies separated files for different audio and video qualities.
Comment by Kommunist_Pig at 20/05/2022 at 12:07 UTC
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Its faster to download a not playing video with reddit video save then to get it to work.