Description of the issue:
When attempting to upload videos from my Manjaro machine using the Brave browser, the platform consistently reports that the uploaded videos are empty, and the upload process fails. I think this is a Chromium fault, since Electron apps like Discord fails to upload videos too aswell.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Open Brave browser on a Manjaro machine.
Navigate to a platform or website that supports video uploads.
Attempt to upload a video file from the local machine to the platform.
Expected result:
The video should be successfully uploaded to the platform without any errors or issues.
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.65.83 Chromium: 123.0.6312.46 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
Additional Information:
This issue occurs consistently on my Manjaro machine using Brave browser.
The video files are confirmed to be intact and compatible with the platform’s upload requirements.
Uploading videos using other browsers does not result in the same issue, suggesting it may be specific to Brave browser/Chromium.
@Suero,
Thank you for the detailed report.
I’m curious to see if this behavior occurs in a clean browser profile? You mention that this happens in other apps — does it happen in other browsers as well?
The 2 browsers I really tested on my device was Brave and Firefox, on Firefox it seems to work perfectly, another app I experienced the issue was Discord, which also won’t let me upload videos aswell. ( probably because it’s developed with Electron which uses Chromium )
@Suero,
I should have asked for this previously — can you share your console logs when you attempt to upload a video (Menu --> More tools --> Dev tools --> [Console])?
Interesting — I would test downloading and subsequently attempting to upload another .mp4 file to any of the sites where you’re seeing this issue and see if you get the same results.
Yeah, I can upload downloaded videos to anywhere I want, the problem is in videos I record. This is probably a Chromium bug, since I can upload my videos using firefox.
It is likely a Chromium bug as you said — although looking through monorail I don’t see anything recent that describes this. Either that, or there is something special about the videos that you are recording.
It looks like you’re using the Beta build of the browser — one test you can try is download the stable build or our Nightly build and check to see if you get the same results there.
That’s sad. Also, the reason I’m using the beta build is because stable build wasn’t working too, I’ll try nightly build later, also I got a new update for Brave, I’ll see if that works.
Tried updating and didn’t help, also tried to upload a pdf file I saved with my Linux device, also can’t upload it, for the same reason. ( website says the file is empty )
It’s possible to notice that it’s not limited to video files.
I’ve managed to identify the root cause of the issue. It appears that the applications I was attempting to use for uploads weren’t able to access certain home folders, such as ‘./Videos’. To resolve this problem, I recreated the necessary folders, ensuring they had the appropriate permissions for write access.
