Videos Without Technical Effort — Make Your Editors Happy!

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The TYPO3Video (video) extension allows exactly that. Editors don’t need any technical know-how — they don’t even need to know what an MP4 is.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://typo3.org/article/videos-without-technical-effort-make-your-editors-happy
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Two points:

  1. Wrong link in the article!

The correct link should be: https://extensions.typo3.org/extension/video/

  1. Isn’t mp4 already standard these days and actually outdated? It would be cool if the extension could automatically convert videos to WebM.
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WebM and MP4 are container formats, and there is barely any advantage to using one over the other. It is more important what codec is in them.

And for simplicity, compatibility, and encoding speed, I decided to just do h264/mp4.
VP9, the codec usually in WebM, is about 20%-30% smaller but takes about 10x as long to properly encode. And you likely need a h264 fallback for old iPads or similar devices.

This extension solves the “I can now upload videos from my phone or Adobe Premiere” issue and creates pretty good results for that. Good enough for 90% of cases and definitely better than nothing, without any additional infrastructure requirements :wink:

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Thanks for the clarification :slight_smile:

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Thanks. Corrected at 09:28 CEST today.

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Great idea, implementing ffmpeg.wasm – I’m looking forward to seeing it in the core. :tada::blush:

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That is indeed the plan. Let’s see if we can achieve it.