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# Video
This page describes video messages on the WhatsApp Business Platform.
Video messages display a thumbnail preview of a video image with an optional caption. When the WhatsApp user taps the preview, it loads the video and displays it to the user.
### Video Message Request
Use the messages endpoint to send a video message to a WhatsApp user.
`POST` `https://waba-v2.360dialog.io/messages`
**Headers**
| Name | Value |
| ------------- | ------------------ |
| Content-Type | `application/json` |
| Authorization | `D360-API-KEY` |
**Body Example**
```json
{
"messaging_product": "whatsapp",
"recipient_type": "individual",
"to": "{{wa-user-phone-number}}",
"type": "video",
"video": {
"id" : "", /* Only if using uploaded media */
"link": "", /* Only if linking to your media */
"caption": ""
}
}
```
**Response**
{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200" %}
```json
{
"contacts": [
{
"input": "text",
"wa_id": "text"
}
],
"messages": [
{
"id": "text",
"message_status": "accepted"
}
],
"messaging_product": "text"
}
```
{% endtab %}
{% tab title="400" %}
```json
{
"error": "Invalid request"
}
```
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}
### Supported Video Formats
Only the H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec are supported, with either a single audio stream or no audio stream. Videos encoded with the H.264 “High” profile and B-frames are not supported on Android WhatsApp clients. For broader compatibility, use the H.264 “Main” profile without B-frames or the H.264 “Baseline” profile when encoding (or re-encoding with a tool like ffmpeg), and place moov boxes before mdat boxes. When using ffmpeg, the `-movflags faststart` flag can be applied to place moov boxes before mdata boxes.
| Video Type | Extension | MIME Type | Max Size |
| ---------- | --------- | ---------- | -------- |
| 3GPP | .3gp | video/3gpp | 16 MB |
| MP4 Video | .mp4 | video/mp4 | 16 MB |
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