Mullvad VPNFeb 22

Today, we hit the streets with a major "And Then?" campaign in the UK, despite having faced strong opposition.

First, our TV ad "And Then?" was banned on British television.

And then, the outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was largely halted.

Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign.

https://mullvad.net/and-then/uk

Show threadLaura
@mullvadnet sounds great but the long version just crashes a few seconds into playback for me. I'm not in the UK. Glitches out if i download it to play it locally as well. What kind of crazy encoding did you use?
Feb 22 at 8:38pmWeb
Show threadLauraFeb 22
@mullvadnet Ok uh genuinely wondering how you tested this website… in firefox the video playback crashes after a few seconds, in chromium it can't even start it… And to be fair, .mov is a rather unusual format for the internet. <.< Please fix?
Show threadJB Feb 23

@codingcatgirl

I've shared it with our web chap.

Show threadjustJanneFeb 23

@codingcatgirl @mullvadnet

> .mov is a rather unusual format for the internet

Is it? .mov is just the original file extension for ISOBMFF, aka .mp4, before it became the ISO standard (apple still uses the old extension, but that doesn't affect the content)

And the content here is standard LC-AAC with 422 h264, which is also totally fine.

Edit: Chrome refuses to play the file even offline, but if you change the file extension, it works. WTF Google.

Show threadLauraFeb 23
@justjanne @mullvadnet opening it in mpv it glitches out for me after 10 seconds
Show threadjustJanneFeb 23

@codingcatgirl @mullvadnet Works perfectly fine in Firefox, Chrome (with changed file extension), MPV and VLC here.

Could the issue possibly be on your end, e.g., the GPU drivers/hardware acceleration acting up? I've seen similar issues in the past with RAM that had some minor bitflips.

Show threadLauraFeb 23

@justjanne @mullvadnet it doesn't work in Firefox for me, after playing fine for a few seconds it suddenly stops and says it doesn't support that format. I'm not the only person with this issue, see the other replies

chrome refuses to even start playing

mpv glitches out after a few seconds

Show threadJB Feb 23

@codingcatgirl @justjanne

New versions will be uploaded soon. Our website chap fixed them today.

Show threadLauraFeb 23
@jbjrkng @justjanne hurray! any idea what the issue was? cause we haven't been able to figure out what's actually wrong with the files, on closer inspection they look fine
Show threadJB Feb 23

@codingcatgirl @justjanne

Files are fine they're just gigantic. Newer versions are a touch compressed. I'll upload them tomorrow morning, new website build sometime thereafter.

Show threadLauraFeb 23
@jbjrkng @justjanne interesting. I'm getting actual decoding errors locally but i guess reencoding for smaller file size will fix it anyways
Show threadJB Feb 23

@codingcatgirl @justjanne

Haven't the foggiest, I just uploaded what I was asked to upload.

Show threadLauraFeb 23
@jbjrkng @justjanne the file that's being served today isn't the same that was served to me (more than once) yesterday, looks like your CDN swallowed some bytes