# Upload video directly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-video-directly/345367>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-video-directly/345367 "2025-01-03T02:37:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-video-directly/345367/11 "2025-01-03T08:55:48Z")

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Well, as long as admins do not permit the upload of videos in the `authorized extensions` site setting, you cannot upload files with video extensions. That’s why the upload icon in the editor is an image in that case.

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