Video in Editor

[ChrisTERiS]

Hello,

When I paste a YouTube, Vimeo etc link to the editor, it shows fine the video inline. But when I paste a local video link (.mp4), it shows nothing. Is there any setting that I must activate?

Thank you

Chris

[bfarber]

No, there's no setting that will cause direct video links to display in the editor. We use an open standard to support embedding from some popular services (oembed).

[ChrisTERiS]

4 hours ago, bfarber said:

No, there's no setting that will cause direct video links to display in the editor. We use an open standard to support embedding from some popular services (oembed).

Finally I found that by uploading the video as attachment and then inserting it to the body, does the trick. Maybe this is easier as till now I was uploading with FTP the files, and then getting the URL.

[Telemacus2]

Bear in mind that if you upload the video to your own domain, each time someone watches the video, your isp storage is being used and traffic is likely to sky-rocket (as video files can be huge). This is the reason why most people use youtube or vimeo, not having to host the files on their own server.