Reader not playing video

[guarani]

Expected behavior

The Reader should play videos.

Actual behavior

I see an error message when trying to watch videos in Reader.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Navigate to a site with a video (the video should be hosted on VideoPress
2. Open the site in Reader
3. Notice the "There's been an error" message

I haven't checked how widespread this issue is. The site where I saw this is a private WP.com site.

Tested on iPhone 11, iOS 17.0 beta 2, Jetpack iOS 22.6

[guarani]

I'm also seeing this error on mobile Safari and mobile Chrome, but not on these browser's desktop versions.

[tiagomar]

This is what I see on Jetpack iOS 23.3:

There was no error message and this was not a private site.

[tiagomar]

I created a new post with a video using VideoPress block and another using the Video block. In reader, only the Video block is displayed. Both appeared in the webview.

[guarani]

While unlikely, do you think this could be related to the recent media picker update @kean? Seems unlikely, but given the High priority of this issue I thought I'd ask for your thoughts.

[kean]

@guarani, I tested the following:

• Adding the VideoPress block to one of my Premium sites from wp.com: the block is not displayed in the Reader
• Opening a post with a VideoPress block in the Reader in Jetpack 22.6: the block is not displayed

[dangermattic]

Thanks for reporting! 👍