Video Component source from anvil without HTTP API

[duncan_richards12]

I was trying to add anvil media object mp4’s from a data table to a video tag’'s source with the method @meredydd supplied in this post:

Serving images through URLs

Ah, yes - the url property of Media objects is only valid: If the Media object is permanent (eg a Data Table) If you’re requesting it from the same browser session as the one that accessed the url property (if you’re requesting from outside the browser, each API request executes in a fresh session) For more information, see https://anvil.works/docs/media#using-media-objects-directly For what you’re doing, I would recommend creating an API endpoint that serves one image, and one that provides…

but I’m really clueless when ti comes to API endpoints and keeping them secure, so I just decided to get ChatGPT’s help on encoding the MediaObject and then set the source like this:

import base64
self.video_player_1.source = f'data:video/mp4;base64,{base64.b64encode(<MediaObject>.get_bytes()).decode("utf-8")}'```

Sharing this in case anyone else wants an alternative to the http route.