Video not supported

[gopokyo-colinn]

Please add support to upload and render mp4 or webm files. This would be great as I frequently download copies of youtube vidoes for reference such that I can work offline and still review reference material.

[Neekster]

In general, the ability to embed files would be really relevant to me, especially PDFs and videos.

[dayne]

So while I agree it would be nice I will say it probably isn't feasible without figuring out some sort of secondary storage bucket / hosting system for the video files.

• Git is meant to revision control text files and you can do binary blob files (images, videos, and pdfs) but it isn't intended.
• You can do it but things get ... not optimal if you "change/move" them because it causes unfortunate things to happen in your git archive.
• GitHub does not allow uploading of large files (greater than 100MB) to a Git repository.

-dayne

[gopokyo-colinn]

The official Obsidian publish has limits of 50mb per file - or something around there. Would having a restriction like that help? I am not aware of change/move issues with our game development projects using largefiles. What are the unfortunate things your are referring to @dayne ?

[dayne]

@gopokyo-colinn

The top answer here is pretty good. Another: Why not doing it and what to do to fix it if you do.

This is all why GitHub offers guidance on managing large files on github

[russellgordon]

Is Git Large File Storage an option for implementing this?

I say this as a longtime Digital Garden user on multiple sites who'd love to see the feature exist – but I have no idea what's involved on a technical level.

As a high-school computer science teacher authoring tutorials for my students, I currently work around this by making animated GIFs in place of short .MP4 files, but GIFs have their own issues.

I'd love to occasionally be able to include PDF files and sometimes .ZIP files as well.

[dayne]

LFS is a good option to consider for handling of binary blobs in git. It is not perfect for all usecases/workflows

GitHub supports LFS so that leans nicely into that .. but possible there are a lot of layers of complexity to integrate this correctly and consistently at each of the layers/environments a digital garden workflow involves to go from a workstation to a website.

Serious considerations planning & hacking needed before attempting to weave it into the digitalgarden plugin .. lot of layers of things have to all agree to mange things the same way .. and it where the final website is deployed to would need the tools too.