Video previews no longer show up since 3.2.0.beta3

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Video Previews Not Showing Since 3.2.0.beta3

kinetiksoft reported that since the 3.2.0.beta3 update, video preview images are not displaying in Discourse, instead showing a black screen. This issue seems to be a breaking change, as videos uploaded prior to the update still show previews correctly. An example of the issue can be seen in the official 3.2.0.beta3 announcement.

JammyDodger pointed out a related topic, Video thumbnails not generated for uploaded videos in Discourse forum, and suspected it might be related to a change in this PR. kinetiksoft will continue the discussion in the original topic.

Since 3.2.0.beta3 update, Discourse does not show the video preview image. It shows black screen instead.

Well, you can see that in the official 3.2.0.beta3 announcement: 3.2.0.beta3: Chat grace period, category dark mode, site settings UI improvements, and more :

What’s interesting is that seems to be a breaking change, as all the videos uploaded prior to that show the previews correctly in our instance. Let’s just check some of previous posts at Discourse Meta prior to 3.2.0, where you can see video previews showing up correctly:

This was raised recently in this Support topic:

I think it’s a change from this PR:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/23807

Thank you, I’ll proceed to the original topic you referenced to discuss this issue. Sorry, i tried, but could not find relevant topic to mine.