Support linking directly to clips.

[chrisfried]

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[jbccollins]

Is the idea here to have a link that directs the user to an external url? Something like

Which when you click it would open https://boiling-chamber-45794.herokuapp.com/clip/[gamertag]/
[clip-uuid] in a new tab?

Or do you want a new clip component that basically just contains that standalone video tag and is reachable via a new guardian.theater url (something like guardian.theater/clip/[platform]/[gamertag]/[clip-uuid])

[chrisfried]

Closer to the latter. Clicking on the clip name / "Xbox Game DVR Clip" would take you to a route that displays the clip and the activity the clip was recorded in.

I'd say the URL should look more like a child of the activity the clip belongs to: /activity/[platform]/[activityId]/[gamertag]/[clipId]

The page would autoplay the clip at the top of the page, and below show the activity and any other clips.

[chrisfried]

In an ideal world, no one links directly to the boiling-chamber URLs. They exist for gif making (imgur doesn't like the actual Xbox URLs) and social media embeds (which have yet to be reimplemented).

[jbccollins]

Any particular reason not to link directly to the xbox dvr site when clicking on the xbox banner? Like how clicking on the twitch banners works.

[chrisfried]

Last I looked, I couldn’t find a way to link to a video page on xbox.com. The videos live in modal popups without routes. If you can find a way to do it, I’m on board.

[chrisfried]

Unless you meant to link straight to the video files, which is also out, as those URLs don't last very long before expiring.