Is there a way for when a user uploads an mp4 or video it shows a player function and not just a link to download the video? Not talking about sharing a one box link but a direct upload of an mp4.

Handling videos is a lot of work. You are better off using a dedicated video sharing service and linking to it.

Nothing that’s integrated with it? Or ideas on how to set it up? Some fight videos I want to host that streamable and sites with exception of live leak don’t delete automatically.

It already works this way, try uploading a short mp4 clip and it will work fine, as you can see here: You’re simply going to run into upload limits because videos are HUUUUGE. Upload those clips somewhere that specializes in hosting video and then link to them, like everyone else does, …

:thinking: Given embedded options, isn’t it better to upload on video sharing site like youtube instead? Doesn’t need to add extra layer of unnecessary censorship too… -edit- Plus it allows much bigger videos without storage strain :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

Thanks @codinghorror . I guess my older forum I stopped trying cause a few times just gave me links to download only. I’ll give it a shot today. @OrcaFrost I wish but I was on a Reddit sub similar with what I wanted and about half of the top videos were deleted. I just hate when I click on links to …

Can I tack a support request on to the end of this thread? When I click the upload button here on Meta, and upload a MP4 video, it does not transform my link and leaves it as: https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/e/8e88d0b77c6b9eafff95c0c6c444aa2f6dba856c.mp4 And it embeds a player…

[image] Richie: I’m guessing this is a setting we have changed somewhere. Question is, does anyone know how to undo / fix this? To answer my own question, this setting was enabled: prevent anons from downloading files Unticking it then allows uploaded videos to be embedded with a video pla…

Quick question, is it currently possible to add poster image attribute to the video? (context: we would like to support videos from Wikimedia Commons in our instance, but videos often have a rather not attractive first frame that shows as a preview, so adding nice image as html video poster image w…

[image] Richie: To answer my own question, this setting was enabled: prevent anons from downloading files Unticking it then allows uploaded videos to be embedded with a video player. Is this setting accessable to moderators or only the administrator?

Video player for uploads

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sam (Sam Saffron) November 4, 2019, 10:13pm 17

All site setting modifications are only available to admins, not moderators.

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Video player for uploads

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