Loading circle shows in OBS or browser

Troubleshooting guide for Loading circle shows in OBS or browser in VDO.Ninja and OBS with likely causes and practical fixes.

The loading circle will appear in a VDO.Ninja view link if a video does not auto-load within several seconds or so.

It will be removed once the video connects, and won't re-appear unless the browser source/page is refreshed.

You can hide this loading circle by default by adding &cleanoutput to the URL of the view link.

example: https://vdo.ninja/?view=ABC123abc&cleanoutput

This will hide other non-essentially UI elements as well, such as any error messages. In most cases, when a view link is loaded into OBS, most non-essentially elements are hidden by default.

It is also possible to customize the loading circle with other images.