# Handling uploaded videos

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-uploaded-videos/79917>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 6, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-uploaded-videos/79917 "2018-02-06T15:39:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![twbartlett](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/twbartlett/32/115831_2.png) [@twbartlett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twbartlett)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-uploaded-videos/79917/1 "2018-02-06T15:39:19Z")

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We have a client who would like to upload video - but this could be any video and would need transcoding.

Discourse is clearly not a video hosting platform - so we were thinking about trying to involved a 3rd party transcoder, or possibly some sort of direct upload to Vimeo or similar after the user uploads the file.

Does this sound like a reasonable approach and any ideas on how this might be achieved?

I assume that a customised Onebox view may help somewhere?

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