Embed Video in Markdown cell or pre-run code cells on launch

[Jared Dean]

I'm developing a set of Notebooks for a class and I need to include a set of instructional videos (not on YouTube) for the students to watch then complete the programming exercises.

I would ideally like to put them in a Markdown cell but my experimentation and google searches haven't turned up anything.

If I use this code then I can get a static image but the play controls don't work.

<video width="640" height="480" controls>

  <source src="http://www.foobar.com/cbt/Library_nc/ECPRG193/m415/m415_2_a.mp4" type="video/mp4">

</video>

I could load the video using the HTML magic but the cell has to be executed before it can show up and I'm afraid the students will struggle with running it.

%html

<video width="640" height="480" controls>

  <source src="http://www.foobar.com/cbt/Library_nc/ECPRG193/m415/m415_2_a.mp4" type="video/mp4">

</video>%

Any help is greatly apprecatied.

Jared Dean

Adjunct Professor MBA School NCSU.

[Jared Dean]

I found the solution

Here is an example:  [](https://youtu.be/StTqXEQ2l-Y?t=35s "Everything Is AWESOME")

from Stackoverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14192709/is-it-possible-to-embed-youtube-vimeo-videos-in-markdown-using-a-c-sharp-markdow