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Tessa Evans
Copper Contributor
Jan 18, 2017

How to embed Video into SharePoint

What is the best way to embed a video onto a page in SharePoint? As a web part? or through the insert tab?   I tried through both ways and others with videos from Microsoft Video and Youtube, but d...
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John Aage Andersen
Iron Contributor
Jan 18, 2017

What we did to ensure that video presentation works in all our used browsers - we used HTML5 video element!

<video id="video" width="853" height="480" controls="">
    <source id="source" src="" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Just add your URL in the SRC attribute of the SOURCE element.

 

We did that using a javascript as we have a list of topics and thus several videos, that an employee should watch. When the employee chose a video to watch, the javascript paused the video player, updated the SRC attribute with the new URL and then loaded and started playing the video.

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Tessa Evans
Copper Contributor
Jan 19, 2017

That didn't work.

 

I went to click embed video and pasted that in, along with the URL of the video, but came up with an error message "Unsupported video type or invalid file path"

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    John Aage Andersen
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 20, 2017

    What video source are you using?

    What is the video type? MP4, OGG, other?

    Please provide as much information for us to understand what you are doing, how you are doing it, and with actual code :)

     

    Kind regards, John

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