Bases Video Library

If you keep videos in your vault (or links to YouTube, TikTok, and X), they show up as a boring list of file names. You can’t see what anything is without opening it one by one. Bases Video Library adds a “Video library” view to Bases: artwork tiles, hover previews, and a popover player, all driven by the notes and files you already have.

Features

• New Bases view type Add a Video library view to any base.
• Zero setup required A video is found from the row itself (a base of .mp4 files already works with no notes at all), from a mapped property holding a path, [[wikilink]], markdown link, or URL, or from any video the note embeds or links to.
• Two layouts Landscape (16:9) or Poster (2:3) tiles, with an adjustable tile width.
• Shelves Set Group by on the base and the library splits into shelves with a heading and count, like a game library.
• Hover previews Vault videos play muted and looping right in the tile after a short delay. A speaker button unmutes previews and remembers your choice.
• Duration and format badges On each tile.
• Popover player Click a tile to play. Space plays and pauses, arrow keys seek 5 seconds, Shift+arrows jump to the previous or next video, f toggles a clean fullscreen, and Escape closes.
• Plays lots of sources MP4, WebM, MOV, and M4V in your vault play in the popover. YouTube, TikTok, and X links embed in the popover. Direct https://.../file.mp4 links play too. Formats Obsidian can’t decode (MKV, AVI, WMV and friends) open in your computer’s default video player instead.
• Resume where you left off Playback position is remembered per video and stored in plugin settings, never written to your notes. “Forget all playback positions” clears them.
• Details panel Hover a tile to see the note’s title and properties beside it, with images shown as images. Edit values in place, and numbers stay numbers and lists stay lists. Formula and file properties are shown locked.
• Create a note for a bare video One click writes a matching note next to the file (Clips/Trip.mp4 gets Clips/Trip.md) linked back to the video, and the two merge into one tile.
• Thumbnails Uses your thumbnail property (video_thumbnail by default), or grabs a frame from local videos at a point you choose. Right-click a tile and choose Fetch thumbnail, or run “Fetch missing thumbnails for the open library” to pull YouTube and TikTok posters into your vault so the library works offline. (X doesn’t offer public thumbnails, so supply your own.)
• Right-click a tile For Play, Open note, and Fetch thumbnail, plus Open in default app (vault files) or Copy link (web videos). There’s a custom accent color too.

Install

1. Download and unzip bases-video-library-1.5.0.zip.
2. Move the bases-video-library folder into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/ (.obsidian is a hidden folder, so turn on hidden files if you don’t see it). You should end up with <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/bases-video-library/main.js.
3. Restart Obsidian.
4. Go to Settings > Community plugins, turn off Restricted mode if it’s on, and enable Bases Video Library.
5. Make sure the Bases core plugin is on, open a base, and add a view of type Video library.

License

Personal license for one person, in any of your own vaults, including paid work you do yourself. Every Bases Video Library 1.x update is included. Read the plugin license.

Buying for a team? A Team license covers up to 5 people at one organization (employees or contractors), and you can reassign seats when someone leaves. Team license: $44.99. Request it by email: support@schimkestudios.com. More than 5 people? Email us for a quote.

Downloads: no download limit, and no expiry while the product is on sale. If a plugin is ever discontinued, your download stays available in your account for at least 12 months after we announce it.