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(05-18-2021 05:57 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  On Windows, FireFox, Edge and Chrome all bring up only an embedded audio player, but it's easy to right-click, then save-as...

It has to do with the codec that's used when the video was made. Even though it's ".mp4" there are many codecs that are lumped into .mp4, and modern browsers don't have the matching codec for the video stream used when that was made. I can only guess, but I'd assume the video was made with either a rather old device, or perhaps a very new one, and that specific video codec support ended, or has not been widely adopted yet.

Most likely case, the video was made on an iPhone, so it naturally plays fine on Safari.

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That means the likely codec was HEVC and the video was made on a recent iOS flavored device. It’s possible to get the recording format to default to H.264 which is more widespread, but I don’t think there’s a “change it just thus once” method other than manually switching the default.