vendure Asset video support

Describe the solution you'd like The ability to create an Asset which links to a remote URL (e.g. Vimeo or YouTube) and the AssetServerPlugin generates an appropriate preview image and treats the Asset in a way that the video can then be used e.g. in product detail pages.

Additional context Self-hosted video binaries could also be supported in this way, but in practice it seems unlikely that we'd want to just stream a plain mp4 file to the browser. This would be a great way to use all bandwith without any video streaming optimizations performed by a dedicated video hosting service.

Jun 03 '19 09:06 michaelbromley

hey, do you accepts PRs for this?

Mar 23 '21 18:03 dariobanfi

Hi! Thanks for you interest in helping on this. Before doing a PR, maybe you could tell me your idea for solving it and I can provide feedback.

Mar 23 '21 18:03 michaelbromley

Hi, is this possible? I have an mp4 file that I'd like to be part of a product's asset. Right now it shows a plain icon:

Feb 20 '24 11:02 anant-barlota

@anant-barlota If you want to have a preview image generated based on the video file, you could do this via a custom AssetPreviewStrategy

Feb 20 '24 12:02 michaelbromley

Can it be so that I can run this video on the store or a gif to allow users to see a 360 view of the product. Like:

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Feb 23 '24 05:02 anant-barlota

Yes that should be possible. Just bear in mind that a gif of that size would be very very large for a storefront - the one above is almost 10MB!

Feb 23 '24 07:02 michaelbromley

I'll keep the file size low, but the gif is shown as a static image right now in the storefront. Should this need an additional config?

Feb 23 '24 09:02 anant-barlota

Try getting the source file rather than preview - that should be the original animated version.

Feb 26 '24 09:02 michaelbromley

Closing this since it turns out that, in practice a simple string-based custom field pointing to a video URL is actually the more practical solution.

Jun 17 '24 09:06 michaelbromley