Hello,
it does not seem possible to embed a video that I shared via public link from my Nextcloud in a wordpress post? The visitor to my wordpress blog should see a videoplayer directly in the post, and just press play.
Nextcloud is not listed here Embeds – Documentation – WordPress.org maybe that’s something we wanna work towards? If I understand correctly, Nextcloud would have to implement https://oembed.com/
What do you think?
Other related topics, but as far as I understand they did not solve what I am trying to do:
Thank you for your answers.
Sorry for the response time but I have tested your solutions before.
I have not managed to solve the problem of access to the details of certain videos.
I deleted the ransoware application but I still get the same error.
I tried to delete and resend but it doesn’t work.
For the problem of shared links I tried to use the Sharing Path application but when I add the share link in my html5 player I get the net message: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
For the webdav version I…
This is Jellyfin’s Doc page , but may help give you some idea of what will and what will not play on what browsers. As @baboonpower mentioned .mp4 files will almost always play, if not it’s probably related to your setup.
There has been some treads requesting a feature to do transcoding, but not sure when or if that will be implemented. Best options right now are to use software like handbrake to transcode your content first before uploading.
Kind of a work around, at least until something is i…
EDIT this does not work in 2025 anymore because the needed app is not supportd anymore. Back in 2021 it worked, like this:
install app Sharing Path - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
share a video via link from Nextcloud file interface
click on the three dots of the file, click copy sharing path (as described here GitHub - rookie0/nextcloud-sharing-path: 🌩 Nextcloud app to enhance files sharing to be accessed by stored path, can be used as CDN origin. )
in wordpress in the editor, add the embed block and copy the sharing path url in there (it ends with a file extension, for example .mp4)
tadaaa
Another option, although not as flexible, but that does not reveal your system path and still gives you “activity” information for anyone interested.
<video controls preload="none" width="100%"
poster="https://your/normal/nextcloud/shared/link/preview">
<source src="https://your/normal/nextcloud/shared/link/download"
type="video/mp4">
</video>
append /download to the end of your video link. For photos you append /preview.
Maybe the app ShareRenamer is an additional option. Then you can change the share and re-use the name of the share without changing html code in Wordpress.