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iPhone HEVC Videos Fail Silently as Telegram Avatars; FFmpeg Fix Shared

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Telegram silently rejects iPhone videos as profile avatars because they use HEVC (H.265) codec instead of H.264. A developer documented the exact requirements and created an FFmpeg pipeline to convert videos. The fix crops, scales, re-encodes to H.264, removes audio, and ensures the moov atom is at the front.

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The workaround highlights a common UX failure: platforms silently dropping files without error messages, forcing users to reverse-engineer undocumented constraints.
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