Video Player ( Direct )

Webflow's Limitations

Webflow uses Embed.ly for its video handling.

Embed.ly does not support direct video links, which means that all video on Webflow MUST be served through a provider such as Vimeo or YouTube.

https://embed.ly/providers

Need

A user has a video that they want to add to;

• A site element

• Within a blog post

• To a CMS item, as a video or within a lightboxed image gallery

Webflow has a video element, a CMS video field, and a lightbox

	Webflow	SA5
Video element	Supported, Embed.ly compatable sources only
Video lightbox	Supported, Embed.ly compatable sources only
Video lightbox in Rich Text	-	Embed an image, link it directly to an MP4 SA5 sees this and handles the lightboxing
Video element in Rich Text	Embed.ly-only. Still has a bug with API-setting?
CMS Video field	Can be bound to an element
Background video	Upload, compress, use	? Replace this with an external source

All of Webflow's sources support Embed.ly compatable sources.