I did some searching on this topic and found a few previous threads:
https://forum.backdropcms.org/forum/how-add-video
https://forum.backdropcms.org/forum/embedding-videoaudio-tags-ckeditor
https://forum.backdropcms.org/forum/easily-insert-pdfs-and-other-embedde...
Are these still the current "best" status?
I have a couple of sites on D8+ and this might be the first time that Drupal's feature is better for my sites. There is a nice CKEditor media embed plugin that allows uploads as well as embeds of docs, audios/ videos, remote videos, images, etc.
Is there anything like that for Backdrop? I wasn't able to find anything more at the backdrop-contrib @ github.
Thanks.
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CKEditor5 has a media embed plugin for remote media (not uploads):
https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/media-embed.html
How difficult would it be to incorporate it? I assume there's more to it than just installing it as described in the CKE docs.
Just a 'bump' on this...Wondering if it's possible to get the media embed function from CKEditor5 working in Backdrop....
If desired, you can insert <iframe> in CKEditor field by switching to the HTML editing mode using Source button. Using jQuery, make a wrapper for alignment and changing the size of <iframe>. Do not forget to add <iframe> to the allowed tags in the text format settings.
This is not in the subject, but using a separate field (for <iframe> or file upload, doesn't matter) you get an advantage in displaying content. You can create blocks and pages of "Publications containing videos", you can display the icon "Publication contains video" in the list of news. If you need to place the video in the text, you can use three fields - “Text before video”, “Video”, “Text after video”, or use the “Paragraphs” module, to do “Text” / “Video” / “Text” / “Video” field collection. With the field, it is easier to use CSS or JS tricks to stretch the video in full width, make the necessary design, indentation.
Using the field is simple and more profitable.
When I made my first site on Drupal 6, I inserted an main image in each post using Ckeditor. After a while, I became more advanced, I wanted to make a beautiful list of posts with pictures, but the problem was that my images inserted into the body of the text, not inserted into the field. I had to redo several hundred posts, transfer the picture to the field, and I learned forever - always need to use fields!