Media - External component

The Title and Options configuration dialog contains the following options:

• Component Title* - text input field that is used for the accessible WCAG title for the video. This field is required.
• CSS Class - text input field for custom CSS and/or utility classes

The URL and Options configuration dialog contains the following options:

• URL
  • Media URL - text input field used for https:// URLs to YouTube or Kaltura (video.vt.edu) videos
    NOTE: Kaltura videos on video.vt.edu may have a title in the URL between the /media and the video ID. If the component fails to load, try removing the title portion of the URL so it looks like this: https://video.vt.edu/media/1_XXXXXXXX
• Video Properties
  • Video Aspect Ratio - select pulldown used to choose the aspect ratio for the video. Options include 16:9 (standard for web video); 4:3, 5:3, 1:1, 21:9, or 24:10
• Google Analytics tracking: checkbox used to toggle the tracking of video events using the Google Analytics
• Closed Caption file - text input and browse button used to add a /content/dam/... path to a closed caption file. These are normally formatted with a vtt extension.
• Theme
  • Media Player Theme - select pulldown used to choose a theme for the video player. 
• Autoplay to show images - checkbox to toggle use of javascript to play the video for a moment to load a poster image for the video once it is ready to play on the page. 
• Poster image - drop zone for an image file from the Assets sidebar to be used as a Poster image when the video is ready to play on the page.

The Embed iframe configuration dialog contains the following options:

• Media "iframe" Embed Code - textarea input field for custom iframe embed HTML code from external video hosting service

NOTE: This option should only be used for services not supported by the URL option. Do not use this for YouTube or Kaltura (video.vt.edu) videos.

The share links in VTx video pages aren't really for use in the Media - External component.

In order to use one of those videos in the Media - External component you need to take the page name (minus the .html) that represents the media asset ID and append it to the following URL. The example below is for a specific video but will work for any video page in the News site.

URL prefix:

https://video.vt.edu/media/

Specific example:

https://video.vt.edu/media/1_xird8zr2

That specific example link would get pasted into the Media URL field under the URL and Options tab in the component configuration. You'll also need to paste the video title into the Title field under Title and Options tab in the configuration dialog, "A snapshot of native wildlife research" (minus the quotes).