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Originally Posted by patrickyoung
We had considered the idea of hyperlinks to YouTube. But as its been pointed out YouTube can do whatever it likes with the videos, for example take them down, without us having any control. I think we can compress the video sizes to about 1MB. Is there any way to embed them into a page?
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Yes, you can embed them, but you are pushing a chain up a hill. Basically, the only player that has the horsepower to play this is the Books, f/k/a iBooks app on the iOS/iTunes platform, and that's the smallest bookstore in the business. Half of all eReaders don't have browsers, and half can't play videos, even if they're embedded. On top of that, you'll break older devices, because you'll break the per-html-file size limitations.
Other than that, yeah, it's a great idea. (not really). If you're worried about Youtube, etc., then host them on your OWN site, which doesn't take a lot to do. That won't solve the whole "half of all eReaders can't play these" problem, but, you won't be dealing with your Youtube fears--which, BTW, unless you're posting horrific content, I wouldn't really worry about very much.
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