What are the best options for embedding videos in WebHelp?

[Dave Gehman]

We're attempting to move into the 21st C but are total virgins when it comes to video-fying our online WebHelp material.

YouTube plasters links to other YouTube videos, and we can't find a way to prevent that.
Vimeo requires a credit card and our company financial person balks at the multiple online reports of problems with unwanted Vimeo charges.

Anyone have other free or low-cost, yet honest You-Tube-ish options?

If anyone in the H+M world has stored video on their own/company's web servers, did it all work beautifully?

[Martin Wynne]

YouTube plasters links to other YouTube videos, and we can't find a way to prevent that.

Hi Dave,

You can prevent that by adding ?rel=0 to the embedded URL (no related content).

You can also prevent Youtube from setting cookies on the user's computer if you use the -nocookie version of the URL:

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https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Uh90jzF_4qM?rel=0

Try clicking this and see:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ ... _4qM?rel=0

You have more control in H&M if you embed videos using an HTML Code Object rather than the built-in-video functions.

Anyone have other free or low-cost, yet honest You-Tube-ish options?

If you create your video using Flashback Recorder, you can use the built-in FlashbackConnect hosting: https://www.flashbackconnect.com/

which is great for software tutorials and allows clickable links and interactive pauses while the user reads the callouts. (It doesn't use Flash.) But only for videos created in Flashback Recorder.

See for example: https://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx ... dwEqNgimg2

Hosting video on your own server works ok, but it's a lot of work if you want it to look good on all devices, tablets, mobile phones, etc., and in all browsers. It's much easier to let Youtube or FlashbackConnect deal with all that.

cheers,

Martin.

[Dave Gehman]

Martin, as always, beholden to you.

Dave