# Don't play video in external video player **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [July 1, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657 "2024-07-01T17:43:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/1 "2024-07-01T17:43:37Z")
I was trying to figure out a way to have inline videos (not YouTube), but after searching around it seems like it isn’t really possible on Windows (If anyone has done it, please let me know!) This is the closest thing I could think of to inline videos: Is there a way for the external video player to not automatically close after the video is done? ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/2 "2024-07-01T18:36:50Z")
[HTML Video](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp) ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/3 "2024-07-01T18:38:04Z")
I don’t think that works. I looked at other posts on Anki forum and that seems to only work on Ubuntu and not Windows or Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/4 "2024-07-01T18:39:12Z")
Have you tried it? As far as I know windows has problems with mp4. webm works. ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/5 "2024-07-01T18:45:52Z")
Yea I tried it. Here are some of the posts that I looked at: - [How to create card with video without opening that video separately?](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-create-card-with-video-without-opening-that-video-separately/11350) - [Reddit - Dive into anything](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/6l4j9j/comment/dk433nf/) - [Inline media [Support thread]](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/inline-media-support-thread/20692) ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/6 "2024-07-01T18:48:53Z")
Have you tried webm? I did not encounter any problem. [![Imgur](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/3X/d/6/d6314a9a88fed97c6615001df8ad01ef876e265e.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/w13NJWI) ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/7 "2024-07-01T19:08:58Z")
I haven’t tried it. I heard it was incompatible with mobile. So, that’s why I didn’t use it. How did you do it anyway? Maybe there is a way for Anki to hide certain fields depending on what platform you are on (iOS, Android, PC OS). And, I can have the video show up in webm form on certain platforms and mpv on others. ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/8 "2024-07-01T19:14:47Z")
```auto ``` > **[W3Schools.com](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp)** > > W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more. The only thing that didn’t work was that it would work with the full path to the file. Then it would be possible to embed the video without syncing with ankiweb. Just don’t use videos from [sound:…] as a source. [https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#field-references](https://docs.ankiweb.net/templates/fields.html#field-references) It is convenient to have a separate field for the name of the video file. ---
**Author:** ![NameLessGO](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/namelessgo/32/34298_2.png) [@NameLessGO](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/NameLessGO)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/9 "2024-07-01T19:39:34Z")
> [@medley](#): > > haven’t tried it. I heard it was incompatible with mobile Old news, they have a coverage of 97% - [WebM video format | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/webm) - [WebM - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM) Off-topic: WebP, a great format for images, has 96% coverage - [WebP image format | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/webp) - [WebP - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP) ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/10 "2024-07-01T19:43:43Z")
> [@medley](#): > > I heard it was incompatible with mobile. It works on android. I’ve heard that it doesn’t work on iOS. ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/11 "2024-07-01T20:24:50Z")
What OS are you using? And could you send me the exact code you wrote? I tried this and it didn’t work. ```auto ``` Do I need to manually convert it to webM? Wait, yea I do need to convert it lol. I’ll change it to something like this in a bit. ```auto ``` ---
**Author:** ![Keks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/keks/32/20537_2.png) [@Keks](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Keks)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/12 "2024-07-01T20:34:13Z")
Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19045 Try to convert or offer me a file sharing service where I can send you a video for testing. Your code works for me. ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/13 "2024-07-02T01:44:08Z")
Thanks for the help! The code worked! ---
**Author:** ![medley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@medley](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/medley)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/14 "2024-07-02T01:44:47Z")
Perfect. I can confirm that it worked on my Apple devices and Window devices. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/dont-play-video-in-external-video-player/46657/15 "2024-08-01T01:44:59Z")
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