# First Class Support for 3rd Party Video Services **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [June 25, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-class-support-for-3rd-party-video-services/121241 "2019-06-25T06:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![ryanerwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ryanerwin/32/94589_2.png) [@ryanerwin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryanerwin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-class-support-for-3rd-party-video-services/121241/1 "2019-06-25T06:19:33Z")
I think that one of the primary reasons that Discourse and Discourse communities exist is to be a distributed system of ideas and discussion, free from any one perspective. Linking to videos is a very popular way to share ideas in these discussions, but we’re pretty much limited to YouTube and maybe Vimeo for good built in video sharing. * * * SUMMARY: - `MP4` video can be directly embedded into Discourse and they will play, but video hosting can get expensive - 3rd party sites like Mega or BitChute need to provide proper `og:type="video"` tags… Otherwise they rely on `iframes` and must be manually whitelisted. - `PeerTube` already supports `og:type="video"` and can be cleanly embedded into Discourse right now. For example, PeerTube URLs can be pasted directly and will playback just fine: ```plaintext https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/5a6133b8-3e0c-40dc-b859-69d0540c3fe5 ``` > **[Big Buck Bunny](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/5a6133b8-3e0c-40dc-b859-69d0540c3fe5)** > > Big Buck Bunny (code-named Peach) is a 2008 short computer-animated comedy film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-class-support-for-3rd-party-video-services/121241)._