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Hello SiteOrigin,
I am in need of advice. I would like to upload a 272MB promotional video to our homepage. Is there a preferred widget for optimal playback? What are my next steps here?
Hi Colton
With this size, I’d suggest using a 3rd party service like Vimeo or YouTube. They’ll handle all the complicated things like CDN, encoding, optimizing, etc. Generally, hosting your own videos only really works for smaller videos.
https://www.wp101.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-never-host-your-own-videos/
If you host your video using one of these services, then you can just paste the video URL either in your main editor or in a Visual Editor widget inside Page Builder. WordPress will handle the rest – like fetching the embed code.