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Updated 2 months ago

3rd Party Video link as Background

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The community member is interested in adding support for linking to videos from other third-party platforms besides YouTube and Vimeo, such as Gumlet and Cloudinary, which provide direct MP4 links. Many clients are avoiding YouTube and Vimeo due to privacy concerns or the need to use their own video management systems. The community member notes that Gumlet-hosted videos load faster than Vimeo without any additional scripts.

In the comments, another community member suggests that HTML embed can be used as a replacement for the Vimeo element. Additionally, a community member mentions that a generic video player component for other platforms is planned but has not been worked on yet.

The community member confirms that the HTML embed solution worked as a replacement for the Vimeo element, and they added some basic code to handle autoplay, dimensions, and overlay.

mmustafasheikh
Besides YT and Vimeo, will there be support to link other 3rd party linked videos?
(Gumlet, Cloudinary, and others provide a direct mp4 link which is very handy)

A lot of clients are getting conscious of avoiding YT / Vimeo uploads for different reasons (either they have a DAM with their videos or they have privacy concerns with YT) and in such cases we use other video hosting platforms. Would be nice to have a support of adding custom video link as background (similar to currently YT and Vimeo).
Other general observation I noticed Gumlet (or similar) hosted videos load WAY faster than Vimeo., without any additional scripts.

(Screenshot ref from Bricks Builder that we've used for 90% of sites so far)
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3 comments
OOleg Isonen
you can already do it via html embed
OOleg Isonen
a generic video player component for other is also planed, but hasn't been worked on yet
mmustafasheikh
Thankyou, yes the HTML embed worked as replacement of vimeo element, I just added some basics in code (to add autoplay, dimensions, overlay)
Thanks for the tip yesterday
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