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March 9, 2021

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# Vimeo embedded videos and ExternalVideo type changes

Shopify now supports adding embedded Vimeo videos to products, leveraging the `ExternalVideo` object.

Many `ExternalVideo` API implementations assume that all external video objects represent YouTube videos. To help determine where the video is hosted, we're introducing the new field `host` to `ExternalVideo` that will return a `MediaHost` enum value (currently `VIMEO` or `YOUTUBE`).

Additionally, we're introducing two new `MediaError`values `EXTERNAL_VIDEO_EMBED_NOT_FOUND_OR_TRANSCODING` and `EXTERNAL_VIDEO_EMBED_DISABLED` for Vimeo error handling.