TW5 best practice for large binary files?

[Robin]

Hi all,

I've just started playing with TW5 after using TW2 for a long time, and I love the updated system. However, I've run into trouble when trying to reference large binary files like videos. In TW2, I would just create a local file link, like [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]], and clicking that link would open up the file in a new tab in Firefox. TW5 allows embedding of images, which works spectacularly well, but I haven't had much luck with videos. I can drag the video file into the wiki, but all I get is a tiddler containing the binary data rendered as text, which is not very helpful. I also can't make relative file links anymore, as a link such as [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]] just creates a new tiddler called "./files/really_cool_video.avi". I could make an absolute file link, but that's not particularly portable since, for example, my home directory is /home/username on one machine and /Users/username on another. 

Am I missing a best practice for this sort of thing, or is this problem not well-solved by TW5 yet?

Thanks,

Robin

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Robin,

The short answer is, yes, this is an area where TW5 isn't complete. There are a few relevant changes planned:

1) The easy fix is to make video embedding work - the reason you're seeing strange binary data is just that the video content types aren't known to TW5 at the moment. However, fixing it won't be very useful, as only the tiniest videos are likely to work well as embedded tiddlers.

2) When working with a server, making it possible to handle images/videos etc as attachments, where the data isn't loaded up as part of the TiddlyWiki but is instead referenced from source via ordinary <video> or <img> tags.

3) The external link syntax needs adjusting to make it possible to link to relative URLs, which is indeed an omission at the moment. The trouble we've always had with TW classic is that it's hard to distinguish a tiddler title from a relative link, and that problem remains in TW5. Right now the best work around is to write a plain HTML tag (eg, <a href="./files/really_cool_video.avi">My cool video</a>)

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Robin Deits]

Ah, thanks! The plain html link covers my needs really well. 

-Robin

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[manoflinux]

you can use this to import the file into your tiddlywiki itself.
http://filetotid.tiddlyspot.com/

[PMario]

On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 11:55:39 PM UTC+2, manoflinux wrote:

you can use this to import the file into your tiddlywiki itself.
http://filetotid.tiddlyspot.com/

I personally would never ever embed a video into an HTML file. External links should be used for it.
Just because you can embed it, doesn't mean you should.

have fun!
mario