Accurate explanation of how things are :(
Comment on Hyper-Normalization
ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
sorry for the muted video. it seems downloading the video from the redlib frontend yields no audio
Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is due to the way Reddit handles video. The video and the audio are two separate files that are combined by Reddit embedded media player. There are tools to combine them however I usually just go to the source to get the original instead or trying to pull it from Reddit.