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Insert video

There are multiple ways to insert a video in your application: you can either display it in a video player, display it in full screen or integrate it from an external platform (YouTube, Vimeo…). Choose the right component according to what you want to create in terms of use experience.

Video components

Here are the different ways to insert a video:

  • If you want to display it in a video player (with or without showing player controls), choose the Video Player component. Your video is inserted within your screen.
  • If you want it to launch in full screen without any visible controls, this is the Full Screen Video component.
  • If your video is hosted from an external platform (YouTube, Vimeo…), insert the URL Media Player component into your screen.

Whatever the component, you can associate it with actions, create markers or synchronize it with all other components.

Hosting

If you choose the Video Player or Full Screen Video component, your video is stored with your PandaSuite project instead of being streamed from an external platform. There is no fixed file-size limit, but large videos can make your application heavier, especially for native applications and exported web packages.

When you import a video, PandaSuite creates optimized versions for playback. The quality selected in the component, such as 720p or 1080p, defines the maximum version requested by the app. PandaSuite caps this version according to the source video resolution, so it does not upscale beyond the original quality.

These videos do not use adaptive streaming: the app requests the generated file that matches the selected quality. The final file size depends on the encoded video’s average bitrate, which varies with duration, motion, and visual complexity, not only with resolution. When your project is hosted by PandaSuite, these video files are delivered through a global CDN that absorbs high traffic and many simultaneous viewers, so you do not need to provision server bandwidth yourself (see Hosting and performance). Use the URL Media Player with a dedicated streaming platform only for very large video catalogs or true adaptive streaming.

Here is the list of accepted formats: .MP4; .AVI; .WMV; .MOV; .FLV; .MKV; .MPG; .MPEG.