As I mentioned, you should start by testing if your browser can play the
particular file. If your browser can't play it, there's no TW magic that
will change that. Once you have determined that the file will play in your
browser, you can cut the address out of the url line and hard-code it into
the <video> tag.
For me the video tag didn't work. A frame would form, but the movie
wouldn't play. The iframe approach seemed to be more reliable. You can wrap
the iframe as a tiddler template or as a macro, depending how you plan to
process your movie's (e.g. as tiddlers with same name as the movie, or as
tiddlers with a field with the name of the movie, etc.)
Good luck,
Mark
On Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10:42:10 PM UTC-7, JWHoneycutt wrote:
>
> Thank you Mark S and Mark Kerrigan!
> I am on macOS, so I am trying Mark Kerrigan's transclusion example.
>
> My pilot video is at: `///Users/jwh/Movies/video.mp4`
>
> So I created a tiddler:
>
> !!title:
> `video` (but I have also tried `video.mp4`)
>
> !!body:
> `\define videoLink()
> file:///Users/jwh/Movies/$(currentTiddler)$
> \end
> <html>
> <video controls=controls>
> <source src=<<videoLink>> >
> </video>
> </html>`
>
> ''I assume the `$(currentTiddler)$` was literal''
>
> !!content type:
> `left blank`
>
> ''I don't understand this next instruction: "I then fill in a generic
> HTML5 video template, that places the path to the video in the source
> tag."''
>
> *What is a "generic HTML5 video template" - is that a "Type:" that doesn't
> pop up in the pick list?
>
> *By "path to the video in the source tag" - should I create a tag pill
> with the video path as its name? Put that long tagname into one of the
> following tiddlers?
>
> Then I create a tiddler title: `example.mp4`, body: `{{!!title||video}}`
>
> Then I create another tiddler title:`play it already`, body:
> `{{example.mp4}}`
>
> I get a tantalizing little black video box that does not respond to
> clicking the play button.
>
> I feel like I am getting close
>
>
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