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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, no--you CAN, actually, embed the entire video into an ePUB, rather than calling it from an external link, and use the device's built-in player. Most ebooks do actually link to videos stored on HTML webpages, with players, as you note--but it is entirely possible to embed the entire video into the ePUB. We've done it, more than once. I don't recommend it, for a zillion reasons. But it's certainly doable. This article on our site shows a book we made dog's years ago (2013, if memory serves): http://www.booknook.biz/ebook-sizes-...ipad-book-size and that's embedded video right there.
It's not very kind to the poor bastards that have to download the eBook, either, given how much size video adds to eBooks. As well.
Hitch |
I was not referring to a link to content outside the epub. What I was trying to make clear is that storing videos and/or images as part of the html (inline?) is not normal. The standard procedure is to have a link in the html to an image, audio or video stored as part of the epub outside the html code. In the case of the epub3 I was looking at, there are 3 directories for images, audio and video internal to the epub structure just to make that separation clear.
I suspect that to many, I'm splitting hairs as to exactly what embedding means as when patrickyoung referred to "Is there any way to embed them into a page?". To me, adding a link to an image, audio or video file is not embedding but adding a base64 encoded animated gif is embedding as it becomes part of the html code.
OTOH, others will disagree with me. See the HTLM5 <embed> which adds a link to external content.