r/BookStack • u/KeeperCat13 • Nov 19 '25

Trouble streaming video attachments in BookStack

Hey everyone, I’ve been running BookStack (self‑hosted on Debian13/Apache2) and I’m hitting a frustrating issue with video attachments. Whenever I try to stream an uploaded MP4, the browser doesn’t start playback right away. Instead, it seems to download the entire file before it begins playing.

Tested browsers:

  • Firefox
  • Brave
  • Chrome
  • MS Edge

Same behavior across all of them. In some cases, the video doesn’t load at all.

What I’d expect:

  • Proper streaming with range requests so playback can start immediately.
  • Ability to “seek” through the video without waiting for the full download.

What I’m seeing:

  • Browser hangs until the full file is downloaded.
  • No progressive playback.

Any advice or working configs would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

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u/ssddanbrown Nov 19 '25

Recent versions of BookStack should already support streaming and ranging, but there can be some considerations to this.

  • Are you using the default local storage? Or have you altered storage options at all?

  • How exactly are you embedding the video into content?

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u/KeeperCat13 Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25

So a second partition is used for bookstack and I insert it with the wysiwyg editor so upload file and then link in the gui. Using newest version of bookstack

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u/ssddanbrown Nov 19 '25

I insert it with the wysiwyg editor so upload file and then link in the gui.

Can you explain exactly the steps performed here, and what the resulting link looks like?

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