# Should audio and video tags be allowed?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-audio-and-video-tags-be-allowed/12709>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Février 14, 2014, 4:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-audio-and-video-tags-be-allowed/12709 "2014-02-14T04:35:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcneil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/matt_mcneil/32/81135_2.png) [@matt\_mcneil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/matt_mcneil)\
**Post date:** [Décembre 2, 2014, 6:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-audio-and-video-tags-be-allowed/12709/4 "2014-12-02T18:41:39Z")

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Sorry to revive this old topic; I couldn’t find any answers to my question in newer topics.

Re: using Oneboxing as a solution, my goal is to be able to self-host some private video content (mp4). (One of the goals is to be able to use Discourse’s authorization/group-based access controls).

I think something as simple as this would normally work for me:

```plaintext
<video width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src=""/uploads/default/172/4158c00ffee987c5.mp4"" type="video/mp4">
</video>

```

I understand how to use the Onebox feature for hosting via YouTube etc, but how can I replicate similar functionality for self-hosted video?

Thanks much!  
Matt

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