# Video

Whether you're building an eLearning portal to just want to add a quick introduction to your platform, video is a powerful medium to communicate with your users in a visual way. Your videos can be hosted on many of the most popular streaming platforms or for smaller files you can upload them to your Noloco account too.

## Adding Videos in Noloco

Follow the steps below to see what it looks like to add a YouTube video a project.

{% @arcade/embed url="<https://app.arcade.software/share/vMV9nk1uTAkU2eGLDNZJ>" flowId="vMV9nk1uTAkU2eGLDNZJ" %}

## Supported Video Sources

### YouTube

The Video URL property in Noloco accepts both regular youtube.com links as well as shortened youtu.be links. For example you can expect both `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID` and `https://youtu.be/VIDEOID` links to perform equally well.

#### Privacy Settings

Note that your video needs to be public or unlisted, otherwise it will not load in your app. If you encounter any playback issues please take a look at your videos privacy setting as a first port of call.

#### YouTube Shorts

A quick note on YouTube shorts: currently the Video component does not support playback of YouTube's new vertical video format, Shorts. These videos can also be identified by their different URL structure; `https:/youtube.com/`**`shorts`**`/VIDEOID`

If you need to add YouTube Shorts to your app please use the [embed](https://guides.noloco.io/pages/iframe-embeds) component.

### Loom

Loom videos are great for product tours and feature walk-throughs. The Video URL property in Noloco accepts links in the form`https://loom.com/share/VIDEO_UUID` as well as `https://loom.com/embed/VIDEO_UUID`

### Vimeo

Adding a Vimeo video to your app is incredibly easy; simply copy and paste the URL from your address bar into Noloco. The URL is in the format `https://vimeo.com/VIDEOID`

Please note that URLs in the format `https://player.vimeo.com/video/VIDEOID` are not supported at this time but can be used with the [embed](https://guides.noloco.io/pages/iframe-embeds) component

### Video Streaming

If you have access to any hosted video file, i.e. a URL ending in `./mp4` for example, then you can use that in Noloco to play videos too.

Please note that services such as Noloco Tables and Google Drive are not intended to be used as video streaming services and as such do not do not offer any performance guarantees. Video files can often be quite large, so if you are uploading to Noloco be mindful of your storage allowance, which starts at 1Gb for most customers. It is your responsibility to check with any file hosting service whether or not video streaming is within the Terms and Conditions of their Service Agreement.