Marketing and content teams that run their site on the Odoo Website builder usually have only two ways to put a video on a page: paste an external embed link that ships a third-party player (with its cookies, branding, and tracking) onto your own domain, or drop a raw <video> tag into an HTML block and hope the file loads. Native Odoo has no first-class concept of a self-hosted video — no snippet that lets a non-technical editor pick a video the way they pick an image, no managed storage for large media, and no consistent player across pages. The result is inconsistent playback, external dependencies you do not control, and content a marketer cannot maintain without a developer.

This build-to-order module gives Odoo a proper self-hosted video capability. We add a drag-and-drop Website snippet that lets editors upload an MP4 in the page editor and render it through a clean, dependency-free HTML5 <video> player with native controls, poster image, and autoplay / muted / loop / preload toggles. Uploads are stored as Odoo attachments (ir.attachment) so they live in your filestore or configured object storage, respect access rules, and are served with correct MIME types and HTTP Range requests so browsers can seek and stream rather than download the whole file at once. Because the player is standard HTML5 wired into the existing web.assets_frontend bundle, there is no external script, no cookie banner surprise, and no per-view licensing.

Technically, the module ships its own __manifest__.py declaring the frontend assets and snippet templates, a small model layer for video records and their metadata (title, poster, aspect ratio, computed file size via @api.depends), ir.model.access.csv plus record rules so only website managers can upload while public visitors get read-only served bytes, and QWeb/OWL templates for both the editor-side snippet options and the public render. Optional extensions we frequently scope in include a controller that enforces upload size and MIME allow-lists, lazy-loading and preload="metadata" for Core Web Vitals, a poster auto-generated on save, and syncing video records over the JSON-RPC/XML-RPC API for teams that publish from an external DAM. It runs on Odoo 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0, and works on both Community and Enterprise (Website is the only prerequisite).

Delivery is build-to-order: we start with a short scoping call, confirm the exact snippet behavior, storage target, and any size/format constraints, then send a fixed quotation and timeline. Typical delivery is 2–4 weeks from confirmed scope. You receive the installable source, a staging UAT with a rollback plan, documentation, and a post-go-live support window — this is a service we build for you, not an off-the-shelf download. Pricing starts from $249 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company deployments, external object-storage integration (e.g. S3), transcoding/adaptive-bitrate pipelines, and large existing-media migration volume increase the quoted scope.