Ask HN: Why does browser media always fail part-way?
I have the habit of watching various web videos in small chunks spread across the day.
When I come back to a video I get always get an error about media, network and failing and I have to reload the page to make it work.
I find it rather weird that the browser can't simply say "give me chunk K of this public video".
Youtube appears to work around this issue by auto reloading the page, so there seems to be a fundamental problem about videos.
What is happenning? and Why does this limitation exist? Access tokens have expired and it's simpler to just reload.