Exported ePUB: Embedded Youtube or Vimeo video disappears

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January 5, 2018
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Hi people!

I recently discovered the awesome features of Digital Publishing in Indesign.
What I am trying to do is make a portfolio with several pages in which youtube video's are embedded.
But when I export the .epub the video's disappear.

How I do it:

I paste the embed youtube link onto the page, a grey square appears, and after a view seconds the video appears, i reposition the frame. When I preview the page, I can play the youtube video, everything works fine. But when I export it to .epub and open it and go to the same page, the youtube video is there for a fraction of a second and then disappears. There is no animation attached to the frame of the video or anything. Also tried it with a vimeo video but that actually doesn't even show a fraction, the frame simply doesn't show up in the exported .epub.

Does anybody have suggestion or can tell me if I do anything wrong?

I hope you can help me! Thank you!

Rik

This is the embed code I use:

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FeAle-7IZsBx

Participating Frequently

Hi,

I send you some tips to work with streaming video. This works better with epub reflowable

You can export an epub 3 from InDesign, after edit it in Sigil, for example

Pay attention - this works better from server without https://, then you can upload the video to your own server

1 - HTML code - place this code where I can view the video. Change the src to your URL
<video controls="controls" poster="file.jpg">

</video>

2 - Content.opf - Edit the video item in content.opf and change the href for the same URL

3 - Content.opf - Edit the html item that recieve the tag video and apply the properties=”remote-resources”

I believe that from youtube wont works, but you can try.

Regards

foaad61

Known Participant

Your suggested solution seems to remedy all epubcheck errors. However, when the epub opened it says "invalid Source" and it does not play. Do I need to add something else to make it work? Thank you

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Epubcheck is not an absolute indicator that an EPUB is perfectly functional; it merely validates the code and structure of the file. As I keep noting, multimedia is largely outside EPUB specs, and presentation/playback is highly dependent on the EPUB reader in play.

Think of it this way: a mechanic can "blueprint" a car from end to end, to better than original condition in every way... and it will still drive like crap on a rutted, washboard road.

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yunuzzz

Participant

Hey Bob,

Any updates here?