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WordPress video shortcode adds “?_=2” to the end of my src option

Has anybody had this experience? My WordPress (WordPress 5.4.2 running Twenty Seventeen Child theme) has an XYZ Code Snippet that echoes

but somewhere in the process, a four character string is added to the end of the src so that I get

Media error: Format(s) not supported or source(s) not foundDownload File: https://mywebsite/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/C0112.mp4?_=2

when the page renders.

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Answer

The problem was not the appended string; the problem was that the two mp4 files that had been uploaded were both over 1 Gb in size. Once I had converted them down to a more realistic bit rate and got the sizes down to below 50M, the mp4’s rendered successfully.

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