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by Retr0id 601 days ago
You presumably downloaded the first TS segment (in MPEG-TS format, not MP4), which could plausibly have been the whole video if it was short enough.
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reportgunner 601 days ago
It was a very short .webm, looked like a gif converted to .webm
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Retr0id 601 days ago
Sounds like you downloaded a "gif" embed, rather than a "video" embed. (It's 2024 and everyone serves """gif"""s inside video container formats to save bandwidth, but the UX and implementation details are still different to that of a "video" player)
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