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JonathanHeuer's avatar
JonathanHeuer
Qrew Cadet
6 years ago

Problems embedding video on rich text page for use as custom Help page

I've created a rich text page for use a custom Help page in our application. I'm trying to embed an mp4 video, but it's only showing up as a static image. My code:

<p style="text-align: center;"> <video width="640" height="480"> <source src="url of the video here"; type="video/mp4"></video>
</p>

Any thoughts?
Tips and tricks
  • AustinK's avatar
    AustinK
    Qrew Commander
    6 years ago
    Where is the video coming from? If you are going to host it somewhere like Youtube for free then just right click the video and select "copy embed code" and paste that into a code page, it will work right away. You will have to do some more work to get it to fit where you want but that gets you a working video and the hosting is even taken care of. Change the frame size or whatever you want.

    Sample of their embed code:

    <iframe width="1280" height="720" src="video URL"; frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
        Icon for Qrew Legend rankQrew Legend
        5 years ago
        Here is an app in the Exchange called Magic Button by the self proclaimed Quick base Evangelist, Kirk Trachy, who is a Quick Base Staffer.  He has it working there and as I recall there is a tip there about how to get the correct URL

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