This is especially infuriating since reddit's video player on any Android mobile browser is utter garbage. It hangs constantly because of its poor performance, loads the video extremely slowly, and doesn't support seeking in any audio-less video because a click maximized the video instead of showing a seekbar.

But not being able to seek isn't actually that important because either clicking there straight up doesn't work or it takes you to a position in the video that often enough is more than 50% of the video length off the position you clicked on.

Meanwhile the native video player in any browser on Android supports not only Google Cast but is also extremely fast, has a dedicated volume control, and supports seeking down to pixel-perfect accuracy. They also don't create seizure-inducing flickering when you try to maximize them.

Whoever gave this video player the green light for production use needs to be forced to use it for everything they want to watch until they made it usable.

fyi for anyone who doesn't know, youtube-dl will let you download videos from various sites, including reddit, twitter.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

Sure thing :)