On top of this, v.reddit.com is abysmal. Videos stop streaming, the cursor is impossible to use, I don't know how its allowed to exist in its current state.

Videos show the wrong duration, sometimes, as well.

A couple of weeks ago, someone was asking for the full video of what looked like a 10s clip (which also played just 10s). Someone else replied, that it was literally the post. He got downvoted to hell (like below 100). He was right. After checking his comment, I went to the video and by seeking I got it to show the whole 2m and something. This was not the first time this issue has appeared for me.

v.reddit.com is abysmal. I agree.

I have a greasemonkey script to filter out such posts. There is enough content without them.

https://pastebin.com/5fFyiiM7

Nice I'm not the only one still using grease monkey :)

It's also useful to auto-redirect to old.reddit without having to log in.

Their video hosting service is pure garbage. It is slow and very often I see pixelated videos even though internet speed is not an issue.

Most people use the reddit downloader bot to download and send the video. You'll see it summoned in every popular video thread.

What's frustrating is that many subs will ban the bot, so getting the mirror link requires actually private messaging it. Every once in a while someone who did this will reply to the empty in-thread request with the download / mirror link though.

v.reddit videos are nearly impossible to watch on the browser version of Reddit. If you download direct you don't get audio because they stream video and audio independently (I Think). They removed the shortlink to the hosted site on the browser version too. They're really doing a lot of user hostile things for monetization.