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Cirno 18 Jan @ 9:29pm
Unable to share in chat "Failed to start upload: A server error occurred. (25)"
I have shared many video clips with my friends in the past weeks, but recently, for a few days or maybe a week now, I'm unable to share them anymore. I get the following error in the Steam Chat when trying to share video clips: "Failed to start upload: A server error occurred. (25)". I have retried many times, with different friends, and this has been going on for multiple days now. Doesn't matter if a clip is 5 seconds or 50 seconds long. Image sharing is unaffected, I am able to share images just fine.
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Cirno 19 Jan @ 11:10am 
Today I was able to share 11 video clips but after that started getting "Failed to start upload: A server error occurred. (25)" again :steamsad:
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Cirno 20 Jan @ 11:25pm 
Was able to share a clip or two again, but then started getting the same error, again. Now I can't even share images.

It feels like there is some sort of an upload limit Steam Chat has that I'm hitting? Wish Steam was more clear on this, as in how much of the limit each clip consumes and how much I have left. That way I could be more selective with which clips I share, instead of sharing every single funny moment but then hitting the limit and not being able to share a more important video clip.

It would also be nice if there was some simple one-click share integration with YouTube, with the Steam client uploading the video clip as an unlisted video on your YouTube account, providing you with the video link. Obviously it would take some time for YouTube to process the video before it's viewable, but still. Heck, maybe Steam could even provide some video sharing plugin API, that way whoever could write a plugin for uploading a Game Recording video clip to whatever video hosting platform they want and it would show up under the Share button in Game Recording in the Steam Client.
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Cibo_Matto 28 Feb @ 1:54am 
i figured it was a rate limit thing based on steam chat messages being stored on their servers for 14 days but now it's been 14 days and i still appear to be getting blocked from uploads. steam doesn't want to acknowledge this or explain how it works, maybe they're afraid of people maxing out their data cap all the time idk
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PatchyKanjuden 24 Jun @ 4:21am 
same issue, can't share my epic micrododge clips with my friends .w.
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LordRIB 27 Jun @ 11:50pm 
Yeah this has been happening for ages now, and I CANNOT find a pattern... and I been looking.

I'll send a single file thats 5 megs to a friend, and then the next friend, it FAILED TO START UPLOAD (25). Then the next day I'll be able to send multiple clips to both with no problem, then the day after maybe I cant send ANY video clips to anyone at all. I've converted the files, resized them, stripped the meta data off em, moved them to different drives, nothing seems to be able to tell me why its happening. Which makes me think its related specifically to the steam servers not the files...

but its also limited sometimes to specific people on my friends list, and we all live in the same city, like 10 minutes from each other. *shrug* The last 3 months it has been really bad on my end.... I'm seeing it happen off and on every other day, and its infuriating lol.
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