Add my own embeded video hosted on my server in squarespace

[jonneymendoza]

As the title says, i want to host my own video on my server and link and show the embeded video on m squarespace website.

is this possible?

I read that in squarespace, it only accepts youtube and vimeo but i do not want to host my videos there but i want to host it on my own server.

is there an embeded hmtl 5 or java script code that does this that i can add to my squarespace page?

How should i host my video on my server? via running a web server? or a ftp server?

Thanks in advance

 

[jonneymendoza]

I don't know SquareSpace but if you can add custom html then it's simple to do. You need your server running as a web server so you can have a url to your video file (it's fine if that url is just using the ip address of the server, like http://12.34.56.789/wwwroot/myvideo.mp4 )

<video width="320" height="240" autoplay>
  <source src="http://12.34.56.789/wwwroot/myvideo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="http://12.34.56.789/wwwroot/myvideo.webm" type="video/webm">
  <source src="http://12.34.56.789/wwwroot/myvideo.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

The 3 source lines are for different video formats and device compatibility. It's prioritised from first to last and if a browser/device can't play the format it'll fall back to the next line all the way down until it reaches the "Your browser does not support the video tag" text and display that instead.

Brilliant thanks I'll give that a go