HellPie@lanodan @Miaourt nah this is some fucked shit with Safari on iOS specifically. Chrome on iOS works just fine and as everyone knows, third party browsers are "just Safari" with a UI layer on top.
Actual Safari on iOS gets some "benefits" still, like you can enable WebGPU and other stuff behind feature flags on it, or Apple may tweak its security profile from the "default" state offered through the WebKit framework, while third party browsers remain unaffected and would have to implement all that on their own.
One of those differences is causing the video to fail to load, after being downloaded but before being made available to the page as a resource.
Opening the URL directly in Safari just works, so the media stack is perfectly fine and all relevant codecs are available.
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