I’m getting this btw, odd. (On latest Edge on Windows)
Off topic briefly… we stopped people uploading videos to our Discourse a few years ago because every single topic with a video in it ended up as a debate about who could play the video and who couldn’t. It completely detracted from the OP’s actual video / topic and they were left feeling very deflated 
We force people to upload to Vimeo or YouTube now and just share the video link instead 
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You be happy to find that we are working on integrating a way to automatically transcode video uploads into enough formats for it to be played by all our supported browsers and OSs.
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Fantastic idea!
We have already had multiple requests from users in our community regarding if/how they can upload videos. But as long as there is no granular way of implementing limitations (duration limit, compression, downscaling, lazyload in cooked etc.), we can’t open that can of worms.
Our use case would be mostly: mobile portrait mode short videos (mostly 5-15sec, maybe 1min as max duration)
One question: Would it be feasible to utilize some specialized video hosting cloud storage which takes care of transcoding, compression, and returning a properly optimized embed container to add to a cooked post?
That way, any kind of optimization could be handled server-side by the cloud server right after upload instead of having it handled by Discourse?
Yes. Currently the solution being added to core Discourse utilizes AWS services for that.
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Fantastic, we are looking forward 
thx for the great work guys!!!
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