Well I made a quick diagram to understand where the issue is and why everything is fine with the timeline and archives when the lags are gone:
Yes exactly.
The one I always use to do diagrams. Amazing and basically everything is free.
From VHTV Telegram:
So we should wait for now before reporting not working cameras
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Seems like we fixed the issue. Very sorry for the inconvenience caused.
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Also, has anything been said or done about the videos showing up as a black box with a play button, instead of showing the preview picture.
In addition, when the preview picture did appear, the timeline/status bar, or whatever it’s called, was missing. And no, it doesn’t happen on any other site that shows videos.
I agree, many of the videos posted don’t show up and all i get is a black box and the spinning circle with nothing loading on many.
Any videos i post always show up immediately and play ok.
But it’s not VHTV’s fault. It’s probably due to your browser configuration, because if it were a general problem, ALL users would be affected, which is not the case.
Nothing wrong with my browser configuration or any other browser i have, all produce the same result.
It seems many users get the same problem so we can’t all be wrong surely.
But then it’s strange that I NEVER have any problems playing the videos.
Apart from a few videos that Torey once posted in mov format. My browser doesn’t support it.
And I don’t have any special software here…
Windows 11 Pro and Firefox in the latest version. The videos start immediately for me and run completely without any problems.
By the way, I sometimes also used the Edge browser, but I don’t have any problems with the videos either.
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A very lucky guy, you obviously must be a pal of Jabbath as he never has any problems either 
Well, he’s at least the 3rd user to post that they only see a black box with a play button in it, and, I believe, in as many different countries. I’m sure we probably use different browsers with vastly different configurations.
I haven’t seen a preview pic in weeks or the timeline in months.
Download the video and play it with VLC, which will play almost anything. Best player around, and it’s free.
For mov videos I prefer to use the Edge browser. He can play it online. 
The preview image hasn’t been shown to me for some time now. A few weeks ago it was no longer possible to enlarge the images in the forum. VHTV then changed something about the configuration in the forum. After that it worked again, but since then the preview images for videos have no longer been shown to me.
But the timeline is still there as normal when playing.
I have used most browsers but still prefer to stick with Edge, they all have their funny quirks really from time to time.
You have really just confirmed my thoughts really that any problems, or most funnies, we get generally boils down to the forum software to be honest but VH will never admit that.
Videos at forum displaying as black boxes is, unfortunately, new & “normal” behavior of forum software core. We reported that to forum developers in attempt to make this change optional. Their justification to remove video previews globally across thousands of forums around the web is to prevent browsers in some cases to load the whole video in attempt to display the video preview image. I haven’t run into such behavior of my browsers, that’s why I find this change very strange, and hope they will be able to either roll back these changes or make these optional.
This does not change any other functionality with videos as these continue to be playable by all the devices. So, in case something doesn’t load for you at forum while there are no other reports by other users, this may indicate problems on your side only.
Thanks for the honest reply, it’s good to be proved wrong with ones (mine) opinions sometimes.
This happened on my tablet and would some times slow my tablet down on this forum, but since the change it has been better for loading pages on my tablet.
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