Lack of interest hotlinking videos

[Mithgol]

I remember that XenForo more than five years ago (in October 2018) was vaguely planning to support hotlinking videos, and thus the example of video uploading also said the following:

We have some future plans (maybe before XF 2.1 or maybe after) to add better integration with the editor (like we did with images) and are looking into whether we can support hotlinking videos.

What I suggest here is a very simple tag such as [video]givenURL[/video] that would automatically become an HTML5 video tag with the two attributes:

① controls

② src="givenURL"

That tag would likely also require some CSS rules such as “max-width: 100%” and “height: auto” because otherwise a 4K video on a 1080p screen would be a major inconvenience.

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/video.5701/