New: video playback support

Yay!!! This is super duper awesome. :slightly_smiling_face:

This feature still isn’t working for me, I have tried to trouble shoot, but not sure where I am going wrong. I even tried creating a brand new base to test this feature out, and it still isn’t allowing playback on my video attachments.

You may want to reach out to Airtable Support at support@airtable.com, and report back here to let us know what they say!

Great feature! Any plan to display the movie as a thumbnail or filmstrip inside the cell?

For which video file formats is playback supported? I didn’t find that info, sorry.

Welcome to the community, @RDB! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: The attachment field docs mention this:

Video files (HTML5 format, which is browser dependent)

TL;DR I’m creating a browser extension that plays videos in Airtable lists (no need to open the record).

I use videos attachments in Airtable to update my own listing of freelance artists portfolios.
When my team and I need to discuss hiring and collaborations we want to see all portfolios in one glance, so we set up a Gallery view.
The fact that animated GIFs play automatically but not videos is not great, for us.

So I decided to create a solution.
For the moment I have a Chrome browser extension that automatically displays the video attachments and autoplays them (muted).

Yes, now Airtable plays video attachments in the browser, but you still need to either open the parent record or click on the video for that. My tool autoplays the videos in the record list.

Limitations: in its current form it requires you to input your Airtable API credentials, which is why I haven’t published it yet - just figuring out how to handle things in a secure way.
Also it works only for the Gallery views, but I think Grid views support shouldn’t be difficult.

I’d be interested to know how many people are interested in this, as at the moment I am merely developing this for myself.

Check out the proof of concept (first I show animated GIFs then videos, before and after enabling the browser extension): Airtable video preview - Chrome extension - devlog (v0.2.0) - YouTube

I attach an .mp4 video file on my Mac using the web browser version of airtable, and it plays back the video there fine, but when I try to play the video on my iPhone, it doesn’t playback.

Until this is fixed, the work around for me is to hit the Share button and then send it to myself via text message, which then does play it back.

This would be of big help for those who do content publishing in Airtable.

Our main limitation is that Airtable doesn’t show thumbnails, so this would be a good solution to that problem too

In the Desktop App, .mov files don’t show.
Is that because .mov isn’t mentioned in Wikipedia browser list, or because the Desktop App follows different rules?

Just tested this again on the Airtable android app and it’s not fixed yet, I can’t play nor see thumbnail previews for videos (mp4) in Attachments. mp3 files will play. Gifs can play, but they also have no thumbnail previews. .

Android app is quite neglected compared to ios app.

Welcome to the Airtable Community @Aebatriai - we’re thrilled that you’re here!

As of right now, there isn’t a way to preview videos on Android. I know it’s not ideal, but there is a workaround that you can download the video and play on your phone from the base in the meantime.

This is something the team is aware of and I have escalated your feedback as well. We will be sure to update this thread with updates as we have them.