Is there a way for when a user uploads an mp4 or video it shows a player function and not just a link to download the video?
Not talking about sharing a one box link but a direct upload of an mp4.
Handling videos is a lot of work. You are better off using a dedicated video sharing service and linking to it.
Nothing that’s integrated with it? Or ideas on how to set it up? Some fight videos I want to host that streamable and sites with exception of live leak don’t delete automatically.
It already works this way, try uploading a short mp4 clip and it will work fine, as you can see here:
You’re simply going to run into upload limits because videos are HUUUUGE. Upload those clips somewhere that specializes in hosting video and then link to them, like everyone else does, which also provides a built in player … 
Given embedded options, isn’t it better to upload on video sharing site like youtube instead?
Doesn’t need to add extra layer of unnecessary censorship too…
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Plus it allows much bigger videos without storage strain 
Thanks @codinghorror. I guess my older forum I stopped trying cause a few times just gave me links to download only. I’ll give it a shot today.
@OrcaFrost I wish but I was on a Reddit sub similar with what I wanted and about half of the top videos were deleted. I just hate when I click on links to watch a video and it’s gone. That’s what I was trying to prevent. I know Reddit subs started making mirror bots but sometimes those are deleted also and Reddit is so large the quality of what’s posted is bad.
I’d hate to cost more then I needed too especially for such a small site project but I really hate dead links if I can avoid it. And LiveLeak is a rabbit hole I just don’t want to go down linking back too lol
Worked perfectly! Thanks!
Can I tack a support request on to the end of this thread?
When I click the upload button here on Meta, and upload a MP4 video, it does not transform my link and leaves it as:
https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/3X/8/e/8e88d0b77c6b9eafff95c0c6c444aa2f6dba856c.mp4
And it embeds a player 
However, on our Discourse v2.2.0.beta10 +16 when I upload a video it replaces the link and turns it in to an attachment of sorts:
<a class="attachment" href="//greyarrows.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/8/8e88d0b77c6b9eafff95c0c6c444aa2f6dba856c.mp4">20181207_M62_Vehicle_Fire.mp4</a> (2.9 MB)
I’m guessing this is a setting we have changed somewhere.
Question is, does anyone know how to undo / fix this?
To answer my own question, this setting was enabled:
prevent anons from downloading files
Unticking it then allows uploaded videos to be embedded with a video player.
快速提问：目前能否为视频添加海报图片属性？
（背景：我们希望在实例中支持来自 Wikimedia Commons 的视频，但这些视频的预览首帧往往不够美观。如果能为 HTML 视频添加一张精美的海报图片，将是一个巨大的改进。）
这个设置是只有管理员可以访问，还是版主也可以访问？
所有站点设置修改仅限管理员操作，版主无权修改。
谢谢 Sam。其实我在提问前就知道答案了，只是想再确认一下。哈哈。
我的问题在于，作为版主有权限限制，而管理员的时间又被其他职责占满，再加上不想处理那些麻烦的请求——比如让他们去后台搜索、研究如何完成一些简单操作（例如修改设置或功能、创建新分类等），而这些操作其实并非必要。有时候确实挺让人沮丧的。
谢谢你的确认。