Runtime solution linking to hosted .mp4 files on the internet but streamed/played in webviewer

fmp19

December 31, 20223 yr

Objective: Links from within the program to .mp4 files (audio and/or video) that are stored/hosted online and streamed to the webviewer inside the solution.

These are not embedded or contained in any webpage or media player. Just the raw files with a filepath to them. Is there a way to get those to play in the webviewer.

There are 9000+ of these files and creating a player or webpage for each is a daunting task needless to say.

The idea is to keep the solution as small as possible (especially for mobile devices) so I don't think the container approach is the way to go.

Any thoughts or help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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January 1, 20233 yr

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January 1, 20233 yr

We’ve had great success with https://uploadcare.com/features/#processing-video-processing

you mention “runtime” which is no longer supported.

January 1, 20233 yr

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On 12/31/2022 at 6:51 PM, Blaze said:

Just the raw files with a filepath to them.

Can you show an example or two of such "filepath"? If the files are "stored/hosted online", then I would expect them to be accessible using a URL, not a file path. If the URL protocol allows free access to the files, then you could set your web viewer to something like:

Let (
html = "data:text/html;charset=utf-8, <html><body><video controls width='500'><source src='<URL>' type='video/mp4'>An error has occurred.</video></body></html>"
;
Substitute ( html ; "<URL>" ; YourTable::URLfield )
)

either by a button or by defining the web viewer's internal web address - depending on your preferred user interface.

This will place an embedded media player in your web viewer and load it with the video whose URL is stored in URLfield.

January 4, 20233 yr

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That looks very promising bcooney! Thanks very much. I've signed up for their trial and am in contact with them to see if I can initially get past their 3000 monthly file upload limit.

And yes, I know that runtimes are a deprecated feature, but still doable.

Thank you "comment" Grand Master. That was a great solution. It was what was needed.

This is how I had it set up

Let ([data = GetAsURLEncoded ( WebViewURLFullScreen )];"data:text/html,"& "<html><head>"& "<style type=\”text/css\”>body {font-family: ‘Arial’ ;font-size: .9em ;padding:0px; margin:0px;width: 100%;} </style></head>"& "<body>" &data& "</body></html>

Which really did not provide the play parameters. Thank you so much both of you. I think that gets me past the roadblock.

Edited January 4, 20233 yr by Blaze