How to embed video like [img[xxx]]

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A user in another thread explained the issue with MP4 audio in TiddlyDesktop, which apparently amounts to a royalty issue with “headless chrome”. His solution was to use WEBM instead, but I’d also be interested in a solution for MP4.

Problems with embedding a .mov video file

Browser support is the core issue I believe in most cases. I have used mp4 successfully with Tiddlywiki5 and Mozilla, Chrome etc. HOWEVER if you are using TiddlyDesktop(1) then mp4 will be an issue - I use webm (2) now as a result, I use ffmpeg on the command line to transcode to webm. I actually have a tiddler in my wiki with these incantations because I find I am always needing them and can never recall the syntax. TiddlyDesktop uses headless chrome - there are royalty issues with mp4 he…