# Is there a way to embed media players (audio/video) inside a table?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115 "2019-11-22T08:07:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/1 "2019-11-22T08:07:22Z")
I’m wondering if there is a way to organize media files into some sort of table. This is my current approach:
Test 1:
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/708f6edd45a9b839b23ae96f22ca5b91d196af98.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/708f6edd45a9b839b23ae96f22ca5b91d196af98.mp4)
Test 2:
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c2eb2a1846afccb66b0f6b2e9d716c7a976f3e45.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c2eb2a1846afccb66b0f6b2e9d716c7a976f3e45.mp4)
Test 3:
[https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/5/75ecd9b0d3d699cff10cc351e47c4e5b74d83951.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/5/75ecd9b0d3d699cff10cc351e47c4e5b74d83951.mp4)
But I’d like to be able to do something like this (with the players embedded instead of the URL):
| number | test |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/708f6edd45a9b839b23ae96f22ca5b91d196af98.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/0/708f6edd45a9b839b23ae96f22ca5b91d196af98.mp4) |
| 2 | [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c2eb2a1846afccb66b0f6b2e9d716c7a976f3e45.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c2eb2a1846afccb66b0f6b2e9d716c7a976f3e45.mp4) |
| 3 | [https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/5/75ecd9b0d3d699cff10cc351e47c4e5b74d83951.mp4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/5/75ecd9b0d3d699cff10cc351e47c4e5b74d83951.mp4) |
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/2 "2019-11-25T01:06:40Z")
oh, this is going to be tricky, this is essentially asking for a way to force a “full onebox” somewhere on a link that is not at the beginning of a line. I think in very rare conditions like what you have here this may be useful.
I kind of support a change that would allow something like this for the ultra ninja cases where you want to force a onebox in the middle of a line:
`...`
Trouble is all our onebox styling atm assumes it is the only thing in the line and gets full width so a bunch of assumptions would need to be changed.
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 5:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/3 "2019-11-25T05:37:58Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> I kind of support a change that would allow something like this for the ultra ninja cases where you want to force a onebox in the middle of a line
This would also be useful for when you want to show oneboxes inside of a details section.
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/4 "2019-11-25T07:46:08Z")
I don’t know if this would help, but an alternative interface could be to extend the BBCode syntax. Something like:
```
[audio src="https://file.m4a"][/audio]
```
Or even:
```
[inline_onebox]https://file.m4a[/inline_onebox]
```
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/5 "2019-11-25T15:01:31Z")
Or can we just whitelist the audio video and source tags? Today it’s impossible to post a video to Discourse with multiple sources (one mp4 and one webm) so it plays on every device.
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### Author:  [@anon48433008](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon48433008)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/6 "2019-11-25T19:42:59Z")
Have you considered to allow Iframes and post the table elsewhere?
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/7 "2020-02-16T05:57:07Z")
@martin Thanks to your [awesome PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/8760), audio links now work even if there are characters to the left of the URL! 🎉 (many of my users struggled with this detail, so it will be much easier for them).
I noticed that now audio files work inside **details** :
> **Example**
>
I was hoping that they would also work inside markdown tables, but I see that this doesn’t yet work:
| name | audio file goes here |
| --- | --- |
| example |  |
Is this a feature that could be included in a future release?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/8 "2020-02-17T00:35:48Z")
Markdown tables work, but you need to escape the `|` with \ eg `\|` it’s a slightly annoying issue with pipes cause md tables have semantics for it pipes already
I am half open to adding another optional char we can use there as a split. Comma is not ideal cause people can use it for descriptions.
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### Author:  [@Nacho\_Caballero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nacho_Caballero)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/9 "2020-02-17T05:32:49Z")
This is a pretty good workaround for now. Thanks for pointing it out!
The only issue I’ve run into has been 429 errors (too many requests) when I try to edit a medium-sized table with several audio files (actually, the same one repeated). I got a discourse modal when I tried to save changes and this was in the console:
The only thing I did was add three rows to this table:
I don’t know if this is the expected behaviour or if there is a way to lazy-load the resources to avoid the error (I was able to do it after several retries).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/10 "2020-02-18T05:04:08Z")
Hmmm I am curious, if we currently put a 40mb MP3 in a page are browsers downloading all of it prior to play?
A lazy loader certainly makes sense if we currently have this going on, only thing we would miss out is duration, but we could figure that out on the server.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2024, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-embed-media-players-audio-video-inside-a-table/134115/11 "2024-01-16T05:50:58Z")