Looking for advice on video lecture note taking

[whyeverythingsohard]

Hello! I've been trying to use Trilium to embed videos I saved from lectures and even some old professors that I would really like to organize in my note taking with thumbnails/cards that Trilium does so well. The issue is I can't seem to figure how to embed local files(like videos,lecture slides) from my computer or nas server onto desktop Trilium to write notes about it and organize without duplicating it into trilium. I really want the card view so I can quickly see visually what was talked about like the chalkboard. What would be the best way to do this? In obsidian which I originally used I used File:. I know that doesn't work here because of security issues but since I don't know much about coding why is that? I just wanted a simple way to drag and drop embed local videos and lecture slides into pages and write notes about them and then see the thumbnails to quickly find them. Any advice on your opinions on the best way you would tackle this would be awesome. Thank you all for maintaining such a awesome note taking app. I also wrote this exact same message in the "issues tab" before I knew there was a "discussions" tab so sorry about that. Hopefully someone can give me some advice thank you!

[eliandoran]

Hi.

Trilium Notes is meant as a knowledge base. You can create links with file: but you cannot add videos to the application without actually embedding them into the database.

The reason why we don't allow file: videos (or any other files) and prefer to embed them instead is that these links are not portable. Trilium can be used on multiple devices at once, so a file pointing on your local computer might not work on another.

I'll try to have a go at embedding videos into text notes as per #1912, allowing local videos and not just remote ones (YouTube), if possible.

I would recommend for the time being to upload them into Trilium anyway. This also helps us test how well the application works when the database is big.

When we will deliver #1912, you should be able to switch to file: video embeds.

[whyeverythingsohard]

Hello Elian! Its good to talk to you! Thank you for taking up trilium and sorry about all its responsibilities for free loaders like me haha. I was wondering for atleast the video embedding of notes if that would be out soon? I saw a post from about 4-5 years ago that had exactly what I wanted and its this TriliumNext/Trilium#1460. I'm guessing because its been so long and still not implemented that its probably going to take a big longer? Also all my lectures notes are on my nas and thus if I install trilium through docker for the nas then would that work to embed or link to the videos without duplicating it? I don't really know about all the different methods to get what I want so I'm just looking for methods that can work. Thank you once again!

[adoriandoran]

I think there is a way to embed a video as a note, but I don't know how well will it fit your needs.

Create a note of "Web View" type, then in the "Owned Attributes" tab add an attribute #webViewSrc="<url>", where <url> is the video URL from your NAS. Example:

#webViewSrc="[http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4"](http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4%22)

Then you can watch the video straight from Trilium. The video will also be listed as a card at the bottom of the parent note, but no thumbnail will appear.

Alternatively, you can embed the video files into the Trilium's database as an attachment, then thumbnails will work. Also you can embed the same video in multiple notes without duplicating it. But this will grow the size of your database and the file size of the video will be limited to 250 MB.

[whyeverythingsohard]

Wow thank you for the advice Adoriandoran! You all here are so amazing to me because I don't even know how you all know all this stuff haha. I have the nas server mapped as a network drive so when I tried to copy the path and paste in webview it didn't work. so maybe I need to take a screenshot of the thumbnail and use that as a cover or something and then embed it to open externally? I just wish there was a easier way but thank you once again!