Self-hosted Video

A HandrollTV player can be created for any self-hosted video where the video source URL is either known by you (the publisher) or is out in the open in a list or can be found by a right-click on the video. As long as your URL ends in a filename (like: mp4, ogv, webm) the HandrollTV player can be created.

Right-click a video in its player, the drop down shows this:

You can copy that link and then paste it into the Handroll.TV Create page to make your player. The embed code that you get from our site will create a player on your blog that points to the place where the video is self-hosted (or hosted in case you use videos from other sources).

Generally you will see that a right-click on a video will show that the publisher has used Flash for their player. In that case the video URL is hidden and you can’t embed that content in the HandrollTV player.

Here is an example of an open source movie trailer for Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley that is hosted on the Internet Archive:

http://ia340935.us.archive.org/1/items/SitaSingstheBlues_Trailer1/SitaTrailer1.2Sorensen_512kb.mp4

If you want that trailer on your site, copy this video URL and paste it into the input box on http://www.handroll.tv/ and a HandrollTV HTML5 video player is automatically created for you to copy the embed code from and paste on your site. (See the post on Embedding).

Video URL’s in the Wild

While building the HandrollTV player we found a lot of self-hosted videos URL’s in the wild where a right-click on the video gives you a URL that can be copied and a HandrollTV created for it. Here are some samples that we found on the Internet Archive and also Wikimedia Commons.

Here is a sample blog of videos about plants in motion built entirely from openly available clips:

Plants In Motion

INTERNET ARCHIVE (both .mp4 and .ogv)

Remix Manifesto

http://ia360706.us.archive.org/16/items/trailer_RiP_A_Remix_Manifesto_zhtw_subtitled/Eyesteelfilm-TrailerRiPARemixManifesto882-computer_512kb.mp4

The Beatles

http://ia341303.us.archive.org/3/items/TheBeatles-TwistAndShout/TheBeatles-TwistAndShout_512kb.mp4

King Crimson

http://ia311016.us.archive.org/3/items/Skateboard-KingCrimson-RadioI/KingCrimson-RadioI_512kb.mp4

Sensitive Plant

http://ia301541.us.archive.org/0/items/Sofianaudry-MimosaPudicaAtComPeung704/Sofianaudry-MimosaPudicaAtComPeung704_512kb.mp4

Spawn Trailer