Hi, I'm building a site with RSD. I have some home videos I want to put on the site. In the elements section the preselected options are only: dailymotion, vine, vimeo and youtube. The videos are on my desktop and on the website storage. I do not want to load the videos on to any of the above sites because they would have to be made public in order to work. I want to be able just put the video url in the element box or import it somehow. I cannot find a way to to that.

When I type in the url in the element slot and publish the site, all I get is a gray box that say's VIDEO. Nothing plays. see www.voicebysophia.com

Your link to your video is missing the http://

No, http:// is there

So here's what I've tried

http://voicebysophia.com/Gym.mp4
http://www.voicebysophia.com/Gym.mp4
www.voicebysophia.com/Gym.mp4
voicebysophia.com/Gym.mp4

Same results every time. I've also tried Windows and osx, Safari, Chrome and ie. Same results

RSD Screen shot

I believe that the only way to put a video in that is stored locally is to place it in a html element. I then place the video (3 formats) into my resources

here is the code I used for the example on my site I just put there



https://rsdtutorials.com is where you can see it in action

edit
by the way it will only be up there for a day maximum as it is not my actual site it is a theme I made for when my actual site is ready.

The one I looked at doesn't.
I use this format on one of my sites

The poster attribute lets you control what shows when the page loads.

I've also used this.
https://videojs.com/

Thanks guys, it worked!