I'm trying to play a video in Jupyter books and I must be missing something.
This works...but it just auto-plays without controls and without the ability to stop it (unless one clicks and then it opens up with controls)...but it's not obvious to the user that this is a possible action:
{figure} ../_images/relativity/train_simultaneous.mp4
---
width: 60%
figclass: margin-caption
alt: My figure text
name: train_simultaneous
---
The very weird problem of the famous magnet and coil demo. Think hard about this.
If such functionality is not yet working (I think I saw that elsewhere), I don't understand why raw HTML would not work:
<video width="500" poster="../_images/relativity/train_cover.png" controls>
<source src="../_images/relativity/train_simultaneous.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</center>
That just sits there with a video start button. Clicking on it gives a frame, but for a zero second long video, so it's not loaded at all. I know this is a perfectly fine video source html as if I upload it to a server:
<video width="600" controls>
<source src="https://qstbb.pa.msu.edu/storage/QSBB_videos/relativity_temp/train_simultaneous.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</center>
...it works fine. The only difference is a local file versus a hosted file.
Ideas? I thought raw HTML would always be respected? (It is in bookdown and RStudio, which is what I'm converting from.) I've tried this with multiple acceptable video clips. All mp4.