Hey Glideapps CEO and Senior management.
What would it take to get a basic video player to work in glideapps?
At the moment this basic feature is failing to work even after using different methods and talking to experts here in this forum.
Please advice
Cheers
HB
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I donât use videos much in my apps, but recently I received a request for that exactly. Videos donât work in Glide? I thought a YouTube link would work fine and thus display the YouTube video player, is that not the case?
Hey Nathan,
You can link and upload videos, but they just donât play. The experience with this feature feels unpolishedâit seems like it should be straightforward, but itâs not. Iâm honestly surprised they havenât fixed this by now and turned it into a solid, fully functional feature at this stage of the company.
Uh oh 
Give it a tryâIâd love to hear about your experience. Itâs pretty hit or miss at this stage.
Glide storage is not optimised for streaming video, and itâs not recommended to host videos in Glide.
So whats the solution how do we fix this? as nothing mentioned in the guide is useful or works.
The solution is to host your videos elsewhere - somewhere like Youtube or Vimeo.
I just tested a random YouTube URL. I used the one found when clicking on âShareâ on Youtube, not the URL in the address bar.
(And Iâm happy I made it back here to the forum, somehow I escaped the YouTube blackhole.)
Darren just posted a note about video hosting on Glide. Iâve always assumed that videos are to be hosted on a video platform, exactly as explained in the note. But I would expect the videos to play seamlessly, since in the end the URL points to a player that is supposed to play the video.
I just did a test and did notice that if the URL is saved in a âtextâ basic column, the video wonât play. Fair enough. For some reason when I paste the URL in the text column, a moment later the URL string is replaced by a â0â. I would at least have preferred to see the URL stick and the component to not recognize the URL as a URL.
The URL does stick when using a ârich textâ column type, or a âURLâ column type. These are clearly expected to work when hosting URLs.
Other than this finding, the video component seems to work as expected.
What do you see on your side?
To be honest it had been a good month since i check this again. All is working find on both IOS AND Android. Im using youtube links so all is in working order. Thanks Nathan and everyone
If everything is working fine and as expected, what is the feature request for?
We have a confirmation that the video component is working fine which is good news, you got me worried there for a second. 
The feature request was for this very result we got to day as last two months this did not work consistently at all. I might have gotten lucky on todayâs test however i will keep an eye on it.
you can follow the last discussion here: How do I add a basic video player? - #19 by Hbrezy
Iâve used Glide for a livestream application and that worked perfectly.
We had a boxing event, hooked up OBS to 3 4k cameraâs, limited OBS to 1080p, got the OBS into the application through a web embed. Seemed to work as needed.
For basic videoâs, might be better to host it on a CDN and then implement it into Glide. Iâm not sure what problems youâre facing.
We used vidnoz project in AI. Itâs not from Russia but EU. (vidnoz.com)
I recommend it, itâs very good mp4 and Ai video startup to put into web embed.
I use AWS S3. For small-scale operations, itâs free.
