# ETA on safari playback issues? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/eta-on-safari-playback-issues/388277 **Category:** Support **Created:** [November 12, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/eta-on-safari-playback-issues/388277 "2025-11-12T16:08:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco) #### Post date: [November 13, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/eta-on-safari-playback-issues/388277/15 "2025-11-13T14:40:54Z")
> [@tsk](#): > > I’ll upload one hang on This video is HEVC video in the MP4 container. Support is spotty across the web as it is a proprietary format [HEVC/H.265 video format | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/hevc) > [@tsk](#): > > here > > [https://forum.pixelspace.xyz/t/safari-playback/1516](https://forum.pixelspace.xyz/t/safari-playback/1516) The OP is just H.264 in MP4, which is widely supported [MPEG-4/H.264 video format | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/mpeg4) The first reply has a video that is AV1 in MP4, which is not supported in Safari on devices without hardware decoders, per [AV1 video format | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/av1). This is not a Discourse bug, as Discourse doesn’t do any video transcoding, only serving video the same way it was uploaded. One of our teams is working on adding transcoding capabilities to Discourse, but that will need a somewhat expensive AWS integration > [@Handling Video Compatibility in Forums](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-video-compatibility-in-forums/371540/3): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/eta-on-safari-playback-issues/388277)._