I agree, that it would be nice to do this. Seems like currently, SAB is able to handle links from YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion.
I know if we’re not careful we could use up tons of storage, but I’m wondering if it would it be possible to treat videos the same way as audio, in that you could download from a server of your choice, (or stream it), and it saves a local copy.
This would enable video in locations where YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion are actively blocked by ISPs, AND the app would not need to re-start streaming every time you leave and come back to that book, thus solving low bandwidth issues.
Edit:
I just ran a build with three books using the three different links. The only one that didn’t work was the “youtu.be” link. Both the “embed” link and the “watch” link worked.
I have been successfully adding hundreds of video links in dozens of apps. The links are either to episodes of the Jesus Film hosted on the Jesus Film Media website, or to videos we have posted on YouTube. So this would be an example in Paratext for the URL. (Actually I run a Python script to insert this data in the SAB book texts directly so as not to clutter the actual Paratext project with this metadata.
Thanks for this helpful hint. It is encouraging and a very cool way of embedding the video clips
Would you be able to share this script with us too? And how do you get the list of short clips that are available from the JF site? Can that also be generated, or do you have to build that manually?
Is there a way to track the video views in the app? (clicks to play embedded video).
I was checking Amplitude and Firebase and those analytics were only showing screen_view, audio_play and audio_duration events.
Does this method still work in SAB 5.0 or has it been superseded by the new way of linking videos?
I can’t get it to work (as described above), but don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, or whether SAB 5.0 has deprecated the ability to play the FCBH HTML links.
So I copied this URL part: https://api.arclight.org/videoPlayerUrl?refId=1_529-jf6102-0-0&parentSessionId=5c37ee97ec5636.06257468&apiSessionId=5c385dad58c114.87778610&playerStyle=vanilla&player=bc.vanilla5
SAB 9.0 has the feature to add LUMO Gospel Films to the app :
FCBH Gospel Films in the Add Video Wizard
When you select Add Videos on the Videos page, you now get the option of inserting Faith Comes By Hearing’s Gospel Films into your text (i.e. the LUMO films based on Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). This works in a similar way to adding clips from the JESUS film.
You will need to request an API key from Faith Comes By Hearing to use this feature.