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Originally Posted by DNSB

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.

??? In your post, you said:

Not absolutely certain what you mean by embedding the video in a page. Video files in an epub document are stored external to the html page and are referred to by links. ...

Which is what I was replying to. The OP is not talking about calling a video via links; he's talking about embedding the file, itself, in the HTML files.

Splitting hairs is conflating the terms. Calling links to video hosted elsewhere is not embedding. Embedding the entire file in an ePUB is embedding. That seems to be what you're saying now, but it's absolutely not clear that that's what you were saying earlier. The way you phrased it, in the segment I quoted, made it sound as though he could ONLY link to videos hosted elsewhere, so I simply clarified.

I agree that it's not normal. It's a massive waste of the reader's space (both the person and the device) and it makes no damn sense to do it that way. He started out talking about typical, linked videos, but now we have this whole other discussion, (due to some discussion about how Youtube is going to do horrible things to their videos, which is whatever) of embedding the damned things. When obviously, the SIMPLEST solution is to put the videos and a player on their own website, if they really think that YT is going to mess with their videos. (Which, of course, is entirely against YT's own best interests, mind you. Unless, of course, we're discussing paedophilia or other weirdness here.)

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