12-11-2018, 07:40 AM | #1 |
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How can you embed video in an epub document?
We’re trying to produce an epub document that includes videos hosted on YouTube. Can this be done? Ideally, we’d like to have a page that includes a video thumbnail. When you click the thumbnail, the video will play (because the reader will be online). We tried embedding the video itself but that made the document file size too big. We’re hoping to include 20 – 30 videos in the document. Any help much appreciated.
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See discussion of remote-resources in the "epub3 kobo external video opf issue" thread. EPUBs (and reading systems) realistically need to be self-contained, and include everything within the EPUB file. Quote:
Most importantly, Hitch's post #22 from the above topic: Quote:
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12-12-2018, 02:20 PM | #3 |
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It strikes me that a resource intended to be only read on a device which is online and requiring to link to video would perhaps best be implemented as a web site.
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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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You can check the IDPF/epub3-samples for a sample epub3 with video which is a few years old but does work. Edit: I was going to attach a sample but it clocks in at over 30MB. Last edited by DNSB; 03-14-2019 at 04:51 PM. |
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Kobo eInk devices will play video?
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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. Hitch' |
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See Dithering Implementation for Eink Display Panel for more information. You can google for even more information though that paper does a decent job of covering the basics. As another way of displaying audio/video in epub3 files, you can play the videos in Sigil though it does insist on adding the backwards compatible toc.ncx file to epub3 documents. Quote:
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The samples I've tried fail somewhat gracefully. For the most part, there is an embedded error mesage . The one I'm looking at is "Your reading system does not support (this) video". The play/pause/mute/unmute controls do show up.
Considering how under-powered the CPU and GPU in most eInk ereaders are, I suspect that embedded video was not high on the we need to support this feature list. |
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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 |
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