Wistia as video provider for Interactive video type

Submitted by oscar_rockalingua on Mon, 01/04/2021 - 14:01
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Hi,

I know this has been asked before and the answer was to use the source URL. That may have been possible before with wistia but it doesn't seem to be the case now. I actually don't know how they do it. What they provide is a link in the following form: https://rockalingua.wistia.com/medias/jwevqn58ai

No mp4, or webm extension. I've tried to paste that url on the url field for an interactive video but that doesn't work.

We have our own LMS system that has been working succesfully to teach spanish to kids for the last 5 years and we use wistia because typically, youtube or vime use to be blacklisted in most school networks. 
We'd love to use H5P, but only being able to use youtube or vimeo for our videos is no go for us.

Do you have any plans to add other options that can work on school networks?

Thanks

Content types: 
Interactive Video
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BV52

Mon, 01/04/2021 - 17:20

Hi Oscar,

H5P can only use Youtube because they provide an API that lets H5P tap into the source video, for Vimeo Pro they provide something similar. The difference with other video hosting provider is that the URL does not point the Interactive Video to where the video is located instead it provides the page where they have their own video player which will not work. What you can do is you can just upload the video directly to the Interactive Video or you can contact Wistia if it is possible that they can provide the source URL.

-BV