Video from other sources (not youTube)

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I would like to be able to embed videos from sources other than youTube, Will 
that be possible?

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by niall.wa...@ucd.ie on 8 Jan 2015 at 10:33

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It depends. Could you enumerate these sources, as well as the mechanism you'd 
use to play the videos in the embedded view? (Are you thinking just HTML5 
<video>, for example?)

Original comment by s...@seanlip.org on 8 Jan 2015 at 2:39

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We store a lot of our videos on heanet https://media.heanet.ie/. You need
to login to access but embed URL is like:

<iframe src="https://media.heanet.ie/player/07382fd5b6364102a6fe334c12cd20bc"
name="07382fd5b6364102a6fe334c12cd20bc" width="640" height="360"
marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

Original comment by niall.wa...@ucd.ie on 8 Jan 2015 at 3:04

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

We won't be able to implement this in the general codebase, since it's very 
specific and only relevant to a particular set of users (i.e., those from UCD). 
However, if it's possible on your end to expose a URL that can be used with 
HTML5's <video> tag, we might be able to write a general noninteractive widget 
for that, similar to what we were thinking of for audio files. Would this be 
feasible?

Alternatively, if you would like to do this on a local installation, you can 
certainly create a new non-interactive widget for local use by mimicking the 
other ones in extensions/widgets/noninteractive. This should be fairly 
straightforward.

Original comment by s...@seanlip.org on 8 Jan 2015 at 3:18

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok but there are also other public web sources of video e.g. vimeo

Original comment by niall.wa...@ucd.ie on 8 Jan 2015 at 4:15

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That's true (and local extensions can be similarly constructed for those). 
However, for the mainline branch, I think we should wait to see if there's 
sufficient demand for these before implementing. In addition, I'm concerned 
that having a whole bunch of different video embedders would significantly 
complicate things (from the editor's perspective). So I'd look for a common 
standard, and the closest seems to me to be HTML5 video, but it's not clear if 
that works for vimeo etc.

Another idea for a standard is: why not just embed any arbitrary website? The 
issue with that is basically security -- if we allowed arbitrary iframe 
sources, then this allows someone to create an exploration that runs arbitrary 
JavaScript in other users' browsers, and that's not a good thing.

I hope that makes sense. Another possibility is to upload the videos on 
YouTube; would that be an issue?

Original comment by s...@seanlip.org on 8 Jan 2015 at 4:30

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Hi,
it would really be a nice feature if you can embed local stored videos or audio 
files via HTML5.
That's a feature I need if I want to use oppia.

Regards,
Tom

Original comment by thomas.s...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2015 at 12:48