making custom video components
anyone know how i can make a styled component that works with youtube links? or ig more broad how can i store a video and then with a fetch request get the video to style. the ideal route would be youtube as then i can just store a youtube link in the db rather than some file to manage
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I'm pretty sure the only way to play YouTube videos using YouTube as the source is to use their player which is a web component: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components
There are YouTube downloaders that will give you the source video, but they're against YT's terms of service & they keep getting them shut down.
If you have videos of your own that you want to play, you use the
<video> element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video You don't fetch the source, but specify it as a <source> child of the <video> element.hmm so if i have the video myself is there anyway to not deal with having to send over an entire video through some http request?
The file will play as it arrives. The browser will handle buffering and requesting the right parts when you seek.
I don't understand what you're trying to avoid. To watch the whole video, you have to download the whole video.
im trying to avoid having to send a video itself through the http request. idk how costly that is but i cant imagine trying to send 50 videos on every page request is great. so would prefer if i can just store the link itself and then render a video based on the link
to render it, it still has to be downloaded
I suggest for your use case, you can look into what
Video CDN's are. I think that is exactly what you might be looking foryeah ill give that a look thank you.