Sourcing Video

Important All media you use on your sites should be your own or in “fair public use,” usually under Creative Commons (CC) public licence. You should always credit the author when asked to do so.

Important Test your pages on multiple computers and browsers to make sure the embedded media works.

Common Downloadable Video Sources

How-To:

The Moving Image Archive has Creative Commons videoes that you can download, which conveniently show metadata like size and filetype. Here’s an example about Pluto using Firefox:



Scroll down on the iframe above and hover your cursor over the download link. You will see the file’s size. Most videos give you the two required options you need: H.264 (.mp4) and an open-source type (.ogg).

Hovering mouse over download icons