Embeded Video eBook

petercook80 · 03-31-2014, 08:14 AM

Hi, purchased an ebook which came in Kindle format (and works fine) but it has video content which I can view at the publishers site with an online viewer. It is however available to download in iBooks format (only) with the video content embedded. I downloaded this which shows as a ePub format on my PC but although I can open it in Calibre the embedded video is lost. Should (or can) Calibre (with or without the aid of a plugin) access the embedded video and if so how? or is there any other way of reading this book and accessing the video content but on a PC platform ?

I hope that all makes sense.

Thanks in advance for any answers....

kovidgoyal · 03-31-2014, 08:40 AM

calibre's viewer does not support embedded video. Since the file is designed for iBooks and iBooks is available for the Mac why not use iBooks to read it? If you are on a PC you will have to hunt around for an epub reader that supports embedded video.

petercook80 · 03-31-2014, 09:20 AM

Yes that's the obvious solution if I had a Mac.
So having got the obvious out of the way does anybody know of a reader that would do this on a PC.

BetterRed · 03-31-2014, 04:22 PM

@petercook80 - try the Readium addon for the Chrome Browser - or there might be something else in this list http://www.mathjax.org/resources/epub-readers/

BR

fidvo · 04-01-2014, 06:51 PM

Another option would be to extract the video (if it's Epub like it claims, it's just a zip file, so you should be able to unzip it and look for the video file itself), then add the video as another format to the book. Calibre can't read it natively, but it should be able to send it back out to Windows to handle with whatever video player you have installed.

BetterRed · 04-01-2014, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fidvo

Another option would be to extract the video (if it's Epub like it claims, it's just a zip file, so you should be able to unzip it and look for the video file itself), then add the video as another format to the book. Calibre can't read it natively, but it should be able to send it back out to Windows to handle with whatever video player you have installed.

@fidvo - I think the OP said the EPUB with the embedded video was from the Fruit Farm, can their EPUBs can be unzipped into anything useful or do they zap all your RAM if you do

Same caveat applies to my Readium suggestion - don't imagine the Cupertino Crowd abide by EPUB3 rulz, which what the Readium addon for Chrome claims it can do.

BR

fidvo · 04-02-2014, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@fidvo - I think the OP said the EPUB with the embedded video was from the Fruit Farm, can their EPUBs can be unzipped into anything useful or do they zap all your RAM if you do

Same caveat applies to my Readium suggestion - don't imagine the Cupertino Crowd abide by EPUB3 rulz, which what the Readium addon for Chrome claims it can do.

BR

The OP claims he can read the EPUB with Calibre, so I would assume the book follows the standard to at least a minimal degree. If it couldn't unzip, I doubt Calibre would be able to read it.

Of course, I have no idea what the video format is inside the ebook. It could still be proprietary.

03-31-2014, 08:14 AM	#1
petercook80 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle	Embeded Video eBook Hi, purchased an ebook which came in Kindle format (and works fine) but it has video content which I can view at the publishers site with an online viewer. It is however available to download in iBooks format (only) with the video content embedded. I downloaded this which shows as a ePub format on my PC but although I can open it in Calibre the embedded video is lost. Should (or can) Calibre (with or without the aid of a plugin) access the embedded video and if so how? or is there any other way of reading this book and accessing the video content but on a PC platform ? I hope that all makes sense. Thanks in advance for any answers....

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03-31-2014, 08:40 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,347 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre's viewer does not support embedded video. Since the file is designed for iBooks and iBooks is available for the Mac why not use iBooks to read it? If you are on a PC you will have to hunt around for an epub reader that supports embedded video.

03-31-2014, 09:20 AM	#3
petercook80 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle	Yes that's the obvious solution if I had a Mac. So having got the obvious out of the way does anybody know of a reader that would do this on a PC.

03-31-2014, 04:22 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,725 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@petercook80 - try the Readium addon for the Chrome Browser - or there might be something else in this list http://www.mathjax.org/resources/epub-readers/ BR

04-01-2014, 06:51 PM	#5
fidvo Addict Posts: 309 Karma: 1645952 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	Another option would be to extract the video (if it's Epub like it claims, it's just a zip file, so you should be able to unzip it and look for the video file itself), then add the video as another format to the book. Calibre can't read it natively, but it should be able to send it back out to Windows to handle with whatever video player you have installed.

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