XF 2.2 What's the best way to embed video?

[bennylava]

I want my users to be able to easily post gifs, and little mp4 videos with working audio. Right now all I can do is embed pictures, or upload them as attachments. I've searched here, and I've changed a few settings, but still I'm not able to attach a little 3Mb mp4 file. I turned it on in Setup>Options>Attachments>Allow video/audio uploads with maximum file size of [3Mb]. But when I go to upload to a post using the add attachments button, it won't ever see any mp4.

But maybe attachments aren't the best way to go? I want to have a "Memes" section for entertainment purposes, but currently I'm unable to do that without video.

Is Vimeo the best way to go? Thank you

 

[Mr Lucky]

Have you tried using the embed video icon in the toolbar, camera icon with a + inside it?

For gifs you can use the giphy icon in the toolbar or if they are not on giphy just use the image icon

 

[Mr Lucky]

Is Vimeo the best way to go?

Vimeo or YouTube are good, you just paste the URL into the editor text field.

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[bennylava]

Thanks I never would have found that!

Gonna have my developer move that button and change it to say "Post a video" or something.

 

[bennylava]

Not sure why it says this, but hey, I'm just glad to have found how to embed by uploading. I guess it will tell my users that, but still work anyway.

 

[briansol]

Make sure it's in the allowed extension list:
admin.php?options/groups/attachments/

Allowed attachment file extensions

 

[bennylava]

Make sure it's in the allowed extension list:
admin.php?options/groups/attachments/

Allowed attachment file extensions

If we're talking about the same setting, unfortunately it had no effect on the issue:

 

[bennylava]

Vimeo or YouTube are good, you just paste the URL into the editor text field.

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Do you know if there's a way to make embedded gifs and MP4's keep looping? So the user would press the play button once, but it would keep playing over and over. Starting from the beginning each time. If they wanted it to stop, they could always just hit the pause button.