Load Video From File System

  • I need to load video files from the file system. All of what I found, including WP video player plugins, allows for embedding videos from a source URL, which is not what I need. Basically, I want to browse my file system, select a video file, preferably among several video file formats, and load it into video playback widget with playback controls. Everything I’ve seen requires the source file to be accessible with the ‘http/s’ protocol exclusively. Unless I am mistaken, this precludes the ability for normal file system access to files.

    Also, I do not want to tether video files to a specific WordPress web site, which is why I want to exclude them from the WordPress Media Library. Lastly, the video files are stored on a NAS and designed to be shared across my local network. The will not be placed within my site’s local web server.

    Your help is appreciated. Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter aspsa

    (@aspsa)

    Never mind. When adding a ‘Video’ player, for example as a video block in Gutenberg, the ‘Upload’ button actually achieves what I need. I was not thinking of ‘upload’ from the site’s perspective.

    Thread Starter aspsa

    (@aspsa)

    Argh… I realized that ‘uploading’ a (video) file from the file system copies it to my web site’s location, placing it into the WP Media Library. I prefer not to have this redundancy, since my video collection occupies a couple of terrabytes of space on my NAS. I do not what a progressively increasing web site footprint on my local web server as I access more and more of these videos. I simply want to reference the actual file location without storing a copy on my local web server. Also, I want to use lazy loading when pulling in a video file.

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