Most of the videos in Telegram are not played in LineageOS: "App was unable to play this video. try to play it with external player?". The message appears after 0.1s of the playback.
The problem lasts at least 1 year and LineageOS/Telegram updates don't help. The app has all the permissions, and a lot of the free space on the device. https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/150mlxm/telegram_videos_are_not_playing/
Steps to reproduce
1 Find a channel with a lot of videos loaded in Telegram in different ways
2 Tap on the video to play it
3 Most of the videos return error. But the videos are still downloaded and played well in the 'silent mode' when just reading the message feed
If a video, or an audio file cannot be played correctly in the Telegram app, we advise you to use an appropriate 3rd party video/audio player app. VLC Media Player should be able to play a large set of media.
Serca
Thanks for the advice, but it's easier for me just to ignore all the video content in Telegram.
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If a video, or an audio file cannot be played correctly in the Telegram app, we advise you to use an appropriate 3rd party video/audio player app. VLC Media Player should be able to play a large set of media.