Find a solution for video storage

[jen-machin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently videos are stored somewhere on Sharepoint but the links are going to expire and break from February onwards. We need to find a better way to host video for the site so that it can be embedded properly. Following migration, the old method no longer works.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Videos are stored sensibly
• All videos work internally and externally (where appropriate - should all videos be available externally?)
• Ideally, content of older videos is checked to make sure that it is all still relevant / correct

[jen-machin]

Analysts Guide: Watch screenreader using spreadsheets video and promote / embed into guidance

[cjrace]

This was bugging me so I forked the site and did a version showing how we might be able to do this - https://cjrace.github.io/analysts-guide/.

Code is on the main branch of the fork showing the ways to embed - https://github.com/cjrace/analysts-guide/blob/e8dc8dfe48aa378d7802c9d0c0b8fc1365d38aa8/index.qmd#L20-L40

I think we have 2 kinds of videos - private and public

1. Private videos that are DfE only, it looks like we can embed from sharepoint, just not directly from the file link. Save it in a folder as an mp4 (as we do now), then if you open that mp4 up, it appears in stream and you get a share option that gives you code to embed as an iframe, that seems to work fine in my example.

• These private videos won't work for non-DfE but that's good, and I think we should just make a standard line like This video is internal to DfE. If you're accessing our site from outside the DfE network this video won't play. Please contact statistics.development@education.gov.uk if you're interested in the contents of it., that we can include next to any private video. Most of the time even if people asked us we wouldn't share directly, but we could talk them through it or share slides etc if another department is wanting example L&D resources for example.

2. For any public / open videos we should probably just use the stats dev mailbox to stick them on YouTube as unlisted videos so everyone can access (like the data screener one I have used as an example, which I did a few years ago)

[cjrace]

Tested to be doubly sure on my personal laptop too and this is what internal videos look like using iframes - which I'd say is pretty much ideal?

[cjrace]

Look at video embedding options for quarto