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Playing youtube videos and gifs in the map window

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My group always uses Gifs in Roll20 chat (and videos too, if we use it through Google Hangouts). At the moment however, links are easily buried or ignored in the chat log. I've often thought of setting the scene through film, or portraying character reactions through Gifs. I'd love the "Oomph" of seamless play on the "big screen" of the map, possibly through specific layers. I'd also like a better way to see Gifs, Videos & Links my players have shared, instead of relying on the chat.  Webcam Chat is displayed through a small box at the bottom of the screen for each individual, and I'd like much the same for the Gif's, Video's and Links currently shared in the chat by each of my players. Why should the GM have all the fun? It would avoid clutter in the chat log and allow the GM to better see "a visual history".  That could really let me get a handle of what's going on in my player's heads. With some careful editing, this could bring clever use of art and film dangerously close to Telltale territory. I'd like to prepare chains of Gifs, art and videos to deploy according to my game plan, a bit like a flexible conversation tree.
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Gold
Forum Champion
YouTube would be a lot of fun for my games as well (youtube inside Roll20, without Hangouts). Currently in my games we use the game's internal Forum to share video links and to collect our visual history, and like you said, the Chat Room, for sharing links to a video, or for embedding a picture. There is a macro code, fairly recently added, that lets you display a picture in the chat, and this sometimes works for animated GIF. Like you said: Not on the Tabletop itself, so that is a nice Suggestion. Here is one related Suggestion to check out,&nbsp;you can add your Comments and vote +1 if you like it,&nbsp; Allow More Player Control <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1241923/allow-mo" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1241923/allow-mo</a>... Here are 2 more reference links that may be related and interesting, FYI,&nbsp; Wiki docs link for the Macro Markdown Code to embed / display pictures in the Chat: <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting</a> Animation script (using the API is a subscriber perk): <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2085965/script-a" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2085965/script-a</a>...
Animations sound's cool. Thanks, vote me up too ;)
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Stephanie B.
Forum Champion
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Marking this as "on Dev," but please note that only animations are on dev at this time. Streaming from YouTube isn't on Dev and is not in the roadmap for the foreseeable future.
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Stephanie B.
Forum Champion
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Animations are now live . Since we aren't certain if or when we'll be able to support the other half of this suggestion (YouTube on the tabletop), I'm closing this thread to refund your votes.