shortcodes vs iframes for videos

[stuvjordan-uroc]

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Hi!

I'm trying to embed a video following the docs here: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/videos.html.

Here's the link to the video I'd like to embed:

https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9577f0bf-065e-4611-8049-b05b01284126

(Panopto is the video hosting service my university provides for this sort of thing.)

When I do:

{{< video https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9577f0bf-065e-4611-8049-b05b01284126 >}}

rendering fails with the message "No video source specified for video shortcode"

Based on this thread, I'm guessing quarto doesn't like something about how the query parameter is formatted? So I tried grabbing the URL returned when I ask Panopto to give me code to embed the video. Using that url yields this:

{{< video https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=9577f0bf-065e-4611-8049-b05b01284126&autoplay=false&offerviewer=true&showtitle=true&showbrand=true&captions=false&interactivity=all >}}

This leads to successful compilation, but with a non-working result like this:

Finally I tried just the the raw iframe code supplied by Panopto:

<iframe src="https://rochester.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=9577f0bf-065e-4611-8049-b05b01284126&autoplay=false&offerviewer=true&showtitle=true&showbrand=true&captions=false&interactivity=all" height="405" width="720" style="border: 1px solid #464646;" allowfullscreen allow="autoplay"></iframe>

That works beautifully:

So what's going on here? What are video shortcodes doing that is different from what raw iframe code does? Am I missing out on something by not being able to make the shortcode work for this video?

Thanks!

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[cscheid]

You can always check the HTML output that was generated by the shortcode and compare it to the raw <iframe> inclusion; maybe start there?