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No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world nooeh @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

Is there something I can add to a direct video URL to make it loop?

So if I have lorenipsum.com/test.mp4, can I modify it like so: lorenipsum.com/test.mp4?&loop=1 or some other append to make it loop?

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You can make a very simple html page that contains the video and do it there.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_video_loop.asp

Assuming you can host html somewhere.
- Also, often can right click -> loop.
  
  I know how to do this but I was hoping there was some way to build it into the url.
- How about JavaScript which writes a simple html page. Any clue how I might go about that?
  
  Javascript is overkill. Open a file on your desktop, name it whatever.html. Open it in notepad, put this in it. Save it, open it in your browser.
- It should't matter, it should loop even if it's just the html file locally opened with a browser.
I wrote a quick bookmarklet for you:

javascript: (() => document.querySelectorAll("video").forEach(video => video.loop = true))();

You can paste this into the URL bar (and press Enter to apply) or add it as a bookmark (and apply by clicking on the bookmark), it will make all video elements on the page loop automatically. Caveats:

It won't work if the video element is in a subframe (shouldn't be the case too often with normal pages)

Only works for HTML5 video elements

Custom controls might override the native loop, but they shouldn't

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