video player

q16marvin

Hi,

we are currently testing nodebb and it looks quit fine

we want to show some videos to our users. i found some "old" videoplayer plugings but noting is in current version 2.8.11 working. Is there anything current?

Thx!

Erik

julian

Hi @q16marvin/Erik, are you looking for a specific video embed?

We recommend nodebb-plugin-iframely, although they are a paid service (with a generous free tier).

If you want a specific embed, we can look into updating the plugin for you if it does not work with v2/v3.

phenomlab

@q16marvin I think you'll want nodebb-plugin-ns-embed. Failing that, nodebb-plugin-iframely as @julian suggests. The free tier isn't that generous though as I easily exceeded it. iFramely counts URLs hits once per hour, not individual requests.

However, it is possible to host your own iFramely server, and there's a guide for that here
https://sudonix.com/topic/331/how-to-install-a-self-hosted-instance-of-iframely-for-use-with-nodebb?_=1682518727681

q16marvin

Hi,

thx for the quick answers... i want to upload a simple short mp4 file to a thread and it would be cool that this video is directly played, not opened in a seperate site like a link

Thx!

Erik

phenomlab

@q16marvin In that case, you'll want nodebb-plugin-ns-embed with the following rules

Name: mp4video
DisplayName: MP4 Video
Watch: <a href="(.*).mp4">[^<]*</a>
Replace: <video id="$1" src="$1.mp4" controls style="width:800px"></video>

See https://community.nodebb.org/topic/10285/i-want-to-play-mp4-file-and-mp4-url-in-my-web-site-how-can-i-do-it/3 for reference.

q16marvin

and it works immediately, how cool is that! THANKS!