Is it possible to link to a web-based video that is not YouTube or Vimeo?

[JeanLR1970]

Wondered if anyone has tried this or found a workaround. Flare help says that "You can only add YouTube and Vimeo files from the web". We'd like to save instructions on a separate company-controlled website and have users open them from the Flare HTML output. Is this possible? If so, how would I do it?

[NorthEast]

You can still just manually insert the video in the same way as you would on any web page.

So if you're hosting the video on your own site (like a mp4 file), then just use a <video> tag and point it to the video URL.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp

[JeanLR1970]

Thanks for the information.
Does this only work if you add the <video> tag with the URL to the generated output HTML?
I get an Invalid message if I add the <video> tag in the Flare topic.

[NorthEast]

No, you can add the video tag to the source.
I use video tags like the example code below, to include a track caption/subtitle file (because that's not supported by Flare).

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<video id="video1" controls="">
    <source type="video/mp4" src="Videos/Video1.mp4" />
    <track kind="captions" src="Videos/Video1.txt" srclang="en" label="English captions" />
</video>

If you're getting messages that the document isn't valid, then I'd guess that you've included code that isn't valid XHTML. Flare uses XHTML for topics, which is a stricter form of HTML.
One common reason for invalid XHTML is that you can't use shorthand/minimised notation for attributes - so you can't use <... controls> and have to include the value (even if blank) like <... controls="">.
(https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.5)