Video Question Type

Last updated: 15 Feb 2022

The question type “video” prompts a user to record a video as an answer to a question (e.g. “Please record a video of the head of household saying his full name”). That video then gets saved along with the form data.

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Including a video as a part of the question is more advanced and can’t be done directly in the KoboToolbox interface. To do this, you need to add a line to your XML form (here is an example).

In this example, the question, line 9 is the addition that adds a video to the label of the question, so that the user sees both the question label (‘Sample video’) and the video itself. Note that it references a video file name that needs to refer to an actual file that is located in a folder ‘video’ inside your /sdcard/odk/forms folder, and is called ‘sample.3gp’.