Replace non-working videos with something less frustrating

[benoit74]

We know that support for videos is very limited in warc2zim (only Youtube player mostly).

It would be cool to replace all video players (at least all

Ideally I would like to replace the

Maybe this is too much.

Alternatives could be:

• describe which images (based on URL regex) we want to watermark, with which text (and keep the video player as-is) => this is going to be a bit frustrating for the user because he can still start the video but at least this ensure we can easily cover all kind of video players
• instead of replacing with an image of the original video poster, just replace with a text saying there was a video which is not available in the ZIM (but then we need to be able to localize this message in proper languages).

[rgaudin]

Can we maybe add use cases to this issue? I imagine all simple players based on a <video /> tag with a single file source work as expected.

If so this issue would be for non-youtube smart players that stream outside of a single file.

[benoit74]

First use case I have in mind is the kind of video we have at the bottom of this page: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/periods/

It is indeed not a simple player.