The Flat Earth Society
The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: Rama Set on December 03, 2021, 04:28:01 PM
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Hey, I want to uplaod and post some video clips but not to youtube. I thought to use streamable.com, but the forum does not seem to like them. You can see here (https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=18880.msg252737#msg252737) that the embedded player doesn't work. Does anyone know if this is an issue with streamable or the forum, and how it might be resolved, ideally by just using a different upload site?
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Does anyone know if this is an issue with streamable or the forum
A bit of both, and a bit of neither. The easiest way to think about it is to compare the [video] tag to [img]. It takes a video file, and nothing else. [img]https://imgur.com/a/NYDOF7B[/img] won't work because https://imgur.com/a/NYDOF7B is a link to a web page, and not to an image file.
By comparison, something like [video]https://v.omgomg.eu/dole.webm[/video] works fine, because it's a direct link to a video file that I'm hosting on my VPS:
It looks like Streamable only allows to generate direct file links to paid users. I can't immediately think of a service to recommend. Most video hosting sites force you to use their in-website players because that's how they get to serve you ads and/or collect your data.
Out of curiosity, why is YouTube not a workable solution for you?
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Out of curiosity, why is YouTube not a workable solution for you?
I don't want the videos to be as easy to find as they are on YouTube.
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Out of curiosity, why is YouTube not a workable solution for you?
I don't want the videos to be as easy to find as they are on YouTube.
You can make youtube videos non-searchable and only accessible by link. The wildly popular 'Walk With Thork' series was like that.
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Out of curiosity, why is YouTube not a workable solution for you?
I don't want the videos to be as easy to find as they are on YouTube.
You can make youtube videos non-searchable and only accessible by link. The wildly popular 'Walk With Thork' series was like that.
TIL. Thanks very much!
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Thork beat me to it, but: yes, I suspect that will be by far the easiest way forward, especially since we already have a working youtube embed BBCode.
We could probably cobble something together for Streamable or another service, but I'd prefer not to do so unless it's really necessary. Every small addition is a little bit of extra continuous effort for us to maintain.
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Thork beat me to it, but: yes, I suspect that will be by far the easiest way forward, especially since we already have a working youtube embed BBCode.
We could probably cobble something together for Streamable or another service, but I'd prefer not to do so unless it's really necessary. Every small addition is a little bit of extra continuous effort for us to maintain.
Yeah no need. I will use YouTube.