Add a Video that is Hosted by a Service
To add a video that is hosted by a video service such as YouTube:
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Select a position in the content where the
mediaobject
element is permitted. For example, between twopara
elements. -
Select Insert and then select
Video.
A video frame appears.
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Select the frame to display a popup toolbar and insert the link to the video.
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For YouTube, use the share link.
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For Vimeo use the embed link.
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For Wistia, you can use either the regular Inline embed or the iFrame (fallback) embed link:
From the script tag in the embed code, locate the
href
attribute that ends with ?wvideo=<id> or thesrc
attribute that ends in .jsonp. Copy and paste that attribute into the video frame in your Paligo topic.Read more about the types here: Inline embed, Fallback (iframe) Embed.
Note
The Wistia video embed is responsive by default, adapting to the size of the screen. But it has a
max-width
value set to 620px. If you want to change that default width, override this property in your CSS:.video-container.wistia{ max-width: 620px; }
To use the entire screen space, set the value to
none
.
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Select Save.
For YouTube and Vimeo videos, you will see a preview in the editor. Wistia and Microsoft Stream videos do not show a preview, but they will work just fine when you publish.
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When you publish to HTML or HTML5 you should now see the video embedded in your content.
If you publish to PDF, you will see a link to the video (by default).
Note
If you are publishing videos to Zendesk, but cannot see them, you need to enable videos in the Zendesk settings: Why are videos not displaying in Help Center?