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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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To me, embedding in a html file means that the whatever is made part of the html code such as the inline images I mentioned. By extension, any content that is referred to by a link is not "embedded in the html code". It may be embedded in the package file but that's a whole other argument. I seem to remember responding to a question about "Is there any way to embed them into a page" which is not the same--to me--as is there a way to embed them in the epub package file. I do seem to remember responding "You can embed some video formats (MP4 and/or WebM) in an epub3 document."
Whether I am linking to an file hosted on YouTube or linking to a file inside the epub package doesn't really matter to me.
Links is links.
I get the galloping heebies when you refer to "embedding the file, itself, in the HTML files" where I would say "embedding the file in the EPUB document or EPUB package file". By definition, an epub document/container/package file must contain more than only HTML files.
Pedantry is us.