Support WebM video

[monicagoodlett]

I wonder if I can embed video webm through hugos markdown
Or rather, how can I accomplish this?
https://www.google.com.vn/

[alexandros]

You need to create a Hugo shortcode for WebM video. See the docs about Hugo Shortcodes.

Also why have you posted a link to Google’s Vietnam page?

[cmal]

@alexandros

You need to create a Hugo shortcode for WebM video. See the docs about Hugo Shortcodes.

Is there not already a generic video shortcode? WebM has nothing special (except that’s it’s free software and unpatented) and uses plain HTML5 video tag. So any <video> implementation should be fine

[alexandros]

@cmal

Is there not already a generic video shortcode?

No there isn’t. There are YouTube and Vimeo shortcodes. See towards the bottom of the list of Shortcodes | Hugo

[anon94969202]

@alexandros

Also why have you posted a link to Google’s Vietnam page?

Perhaps they were trying to recreate a Doodle.

[anon94969202]

@alexandros

No there isn’t [a generic video shortcode].

IMHO something like this would be much more beneficial for Hugo than, say, Sass. To date Hugo has done a great job liberating the Web but lacks some core Web affordances to set it apart from the competition.

[anon94969202]

Created a topic to discuss this in broad context:

Wanted: Sweet Video Shortcode

Hugo should have an internal shortcode a theme component for embedding videos using the video element so we can get our sweet video content ripped—I mean, downloaded—with the Video DownloadHelper onto our sites. Anyone have a good implementation to start with? Looking for something responsive with a configurable aspect ratio and optional progressive enhancement for JS-supporting user agents. Here’s a place to start: https://github.com/search?q=video+path%3A%2Flayouts%2Fshortcodes&type=Code

Regarding WebM, sure perhaps it compresses a little better but that carrot might not be enough to enable it to surpass MP4 as the Web’s most-used, unencumbered open source video codec AFAIK.