diff --git a/src/hooks/useMarkdown.hook.ts b/src/hooks/useMarkdown.hook.ts
index 45ad824..56bec3c 100644
--- a/src/hooks/useMarkdown.hook.ts
+++ b/src/hooks/useMarkdown.hook.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import blockEmbedPlugin from 'markdown-it-block-embed'
 import markdownItCheckbox from 'markdown-it-checkbox'
 import markdownItSvgCodeCopy from 'markdown-it-svg-code-copy'
 import markdownItFootnote from 'markdown-it-footnote'
-import htmlMedia from 'markdown-it-html5-media'
+import { html5Media } from '@/utils/markdown/markdown-html5-media'
 
 const md = new MarkdownIt({
   typographer: true,
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const md = new MarkdownIt({
     h6: ['title', 'is-6'],
     table: ['table', 'is-fullwidth']
   })
+  .use(html5Media)
   .use(blockEmbedPlugin, {
     youtube: {
       width: '100%'
@@ -34,7 +35,6 @@ const md = new MarkdownIt({
     buttonClass: 'button is-light'
   })
   .use(markdownItFootnote)
-  .use(htmlMedia.html5Media)
 
 export const useMarkdown = (defaultPrefix?: string) => {
   return {
diff --git a/src/utils/markdown/markdown-html5-media.ts b/src/utils/markdown/markdown-html5-media.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b979ecd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/markdown/markdown-html5-media.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,388 @@
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any */
+// We can only detect video/audio files from the extension in the URL.
+// We ignore MP1 and MP2 (not in active use) and default to video for ambiguous
+
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it'
+
+// extensions (MPG, MP4)
+const validAudioExtensions = ['aac', 'm4a', 'mp3', 'oga', 'ogg', 'wav']
+const validVideoExtensions = ['mp4', 'm4v', 'ogv', 'webm', 'mpg', 'mpeg']
+
+/**
+ * @property {Object} messages
+ * @property {Object} messages.languageCode
+ *  a set of messages identified with a language code, typically an ISO639 code
+ * @property {String} messages.languageCode.messageKey
+ *  an individual translation of a message to that language, identified with a
+ *  message key
+ * @typedef {Object} MessagesObj
+ */
+let messages: { [key: string]: any } = {
+  en: {
+    'html5 video not supported':
+      'Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video.',
+    'html5 audio not supported':
+      'Your browser does not support playing HTML5 audio.',
+    'html5 media fallback link':
+      'You can <a href="%s" download>download the file</a> instead.',
+    'html5 media description': 'Here is a description of the content: %s'
+  }
+}
+
+let translate = (
+  language: string,
+  messageKey: string,
+  messageParams?: unknown[]
+): string => {
+  // Revert back to English default if no message object, or no translation
+  // for this language
+  if (!messages[language] || !messages[language][messageKey]) {
+    language = 'en'
+  }
+
+  if (!messages[language]) {
+    return ''
+  }
+
+  let message = messages[language][messageKey] || ''
+
+  if (messageParams)
+    for (const param of messageParams) {
+      message = message.replace('%s', param)
+    }
+
+  return message
+}
+
+/**
+ * A fork of the built-in image tokenizer which guesses video/audio files based
+ * on their extension, and tokenizes them accordingly.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} state
+ *  Markdown-It state
+ * @param {Boolean} silent
+ *  if true, only validate, don't tokenize
+ * @param {MarkdownIt} md
+ *  instance of Markdown-It used for utility functions
+ * @returns {Boolean}
+ * @memberof HTML5Media
+ */
+function tokenizeImagesAndMedia(
+  state: {
+    pos: number
+    posMax: number
+    src: string
+    md: {
+      helpers: {
+        parseLinkLabel: (arg0: any, arg1: any, arg2?: boolean) => any
+        parseLinkDestination: (arg0: any, arg1: any, arg2: any) => any
+        parseLinkTitle: (arg0: any, arg1: any, arg2: any) => any
+      }
+      normalizeLink: (arg0: any) => string
+      validateLink: (arg0: string) => any
+      inline: {
+        parse: (arg0: any, arg1: any, arg2: any, arg3: never[]) => void
+      }
+    }
+    env: { references: { [x: string]: any } }
+    push: (arg0: string, arg1: string, arg2: number) => any
+  },
+  silent: any,
+  md: {
+    utils: {
+      isSpace: (arg0: any) => any
+      normalizeReference: (arg0: any) => string | number
+    }
+  }
+): boolean {
+  let attrs, code, label, pos, ref, res, title, tokens: never[], start
+  let href = ''
+  const oldPos = state.pos
+  const max = state.posMax
+
+  // Exclamation mark followed by open square bracket - ![ - otherwise abort
+  if (
+    state.src.charCodeAt(state.pos) !== 0x21 ||
+    state.src.charCodeAt(state.pos + 1) !== 0x5b
+  )
+    return false
+
+  const labelStart = state.pos + 2
+  const labelEnd = state.md.helpers.parseLinkLabel(state, state.pos + 1, false)
+
+  // Parser failed to find ']', so it's not a valid link
+  if (labelEnd < 0) return false
+
+  pos = labelEnd + 1
+  if (pos < max && state.src.charCodeAt(pos) === 0x28) {
+    // Parenthesis: (
+    //
+    // Inline link
+    //
+
+    // [link](  <href>  "title"  )
+    //        ^^ skipping these spaces
+    pos++
+    for (; pos < max; pos++) {
+      code = state.src.charCodeAt(pos)
+      if (!md.utils.isSpace(code) && code !== 0x0a)
+        // LF \n
+        break
+    }
+    if (pos >= max) return false
+
+    // [link](  <href>  "title"  )
+    //          ^^^^^^ parsing link destination
+    start = pos
+    res = state.md.helpers.parseLinkDestination(state.src, pos, state.posMax)
+    if (res.ok) {
+      href = state.md.normalizeLink(res.str)
+      if (state.md.validateLink(href)) {
+        pos = res.pos
+      } else {
+        href = ''
+      }
+    }
+
+    // [link](  <href>  "title"  )
+    //                ^^ skipping these spaces
+    start = pos
+    for (; pos < max; pos++) {
+      code = state.src.charCodeAt(pos)
+      if (!md.utils.isSpace(code) && code !== 0x0a) break
+    }
+
+    // [link](  <href>  "title"  )
+    //                  ^^^^^^^ parsing link title
+    res = state.md.helpers.parseLinkTitle(state.src, pos, state.posMax)
+    if (pos < max && start !== pos && res.ok) {
+      title = res.str
+      pos = res.pos
+
+      // [link](  <href>  "title"  )
+      //                         ^^ skipping these spaces
+      for (; pos < max; pos++) {
+        code = state.src.charCodeAt(pos)
+        if (!md.utils.isSpace(code) && code !== 0x0a) break
+      }
+    } else {
+      title = ''
+    }
+
+    if (pos >= max || state.src.charCodeAt(pos) !== 0x29) {
+      // Parenthesis: )
+      state.pos = oldPos
+      return false
+    }
+    pos++
+  } else {
+    //
+    // Link reference
+    //
+    if (typeof state.env.references === 'undefined') return false
+
+    if (pos < max && state.src.charCodeAt(pos) === 0x5b) {
+      // Bracket: [
+      start = pos + 1
+      pos = state.md.helpers.parseLinkLabel(state, pos)
+      if (pos >= 0) {
+        label = state.src.slice(start, pos++)
+      } else {
+        pos = labelEnd + 1
+      }
+    } else {
+      pos = labelEnd + 1
+    }
+
+    // covers label === '' and label === undefined
+    // (collapsed reference link and shortcut reference link respectively)
+    if (!label) label = state.src.slice(labelStart, labelEnd)
+
+    ref = state.env.references[md.utils.normalizeReference(label)]
+    if (!ref) {
+      state.pos = oldPos
+      return false
+    }
+    href = ref.href
+    title = ref.title
+  }
+
+  state.pos = pos
+  state.posMax = max
+
+  if (silent) return true
+
+  // We found the end of the link, and know for a fact it's a valid link;
+  // so all that's left to do is to call tokenizer.
+  const content = state.src.slice(labelStart, labelEnd)
+
+  state.md.inline.parse(content, state.md, state.env, (tokens = []))
+
+  const mediaType = guessMediaType(href)
+  const tag = mediaType == 'image' ? 'img' : mediaType
+
+  const token = state.push(mediaType, tag, 0)
+  token.attrs = attrs = [['src', href]]
+  if (mediaType == 'image') attrs.push(['alt', ''])
+  token.children = tokens
+  token.content = content
+
+  if (title) attrs.push(['title', title])
+
+  state.pos = pos
+  state.posMax = max
+  return true
+}
+
+/**
+ * Guess the media type represented by a URL based on the file extension,
+ * if any
+ *
+ * @param {String} url
+ *  any valid URL
+ * @returns {String}
+ *  a type identifier: 'image' (default for all unrecognized URLs), 'audio'
+ *  or 'video'
+ * @memberof HTML5Media
+ */
+function guessMediaType(url: string): string {
+  const extensionMatch = url.match(/\.([^/.]+)$/)
+  if (extensionMatch === null) return 'image'
+  const extension = extensionMatch[1]
+  if (validAudioExtensions.indexOf(extension.toLowerCase()) != -1)
+    return 'audio'
+  else if (validVideoExtensions.indexOf(extension.toLowerCase()) != -1)
+    return 'video'
+  else return 'image'
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render tokens of the video/audio type to HTML5 tags
+ *
+ * @param {Object} tokens
+ *  token stream
+ * @param {Number} idx
+ *  which token are we rendering
+ * @param {Object} options
+ *  Markdown-It options, including this plugin's settings
+ * @param {Object} env
+ *  Markdown-It environment, potentially including language setting
+ * @param {MarkdownIt} md
+ *  instance used for utilities access
+ * @returns {String}
+ *  rendered token
+ * @memberof HTML5Media
+ */
+function renderMedia(
+  tokens: { [x: string]: any },
+  idx: string | number,
+  options: { html5Media: { [x: string]: string } },
+  env: { language: any },
+  md: { utils: { escapeHtml: (arg0: any) => any } }
+): string {
+  const token = tokens[idx]
+  const type = token.type
+
+  if (!token.attrs || (type !== 'video' && type !== 'audio')) {
+    return ''
+  }
+
+  let attrs = options.html5Media[`${type}Attrs`].trim()
+  if (attrs) {
+    attrs = ' ' + attrs
+  }
+
+  // We'll always have a URL for non-image media: they are detected by URL
+  const url = token.attrs[token.attrIndex('src')][1]
+
+  // Title is set like this: ![descriptive text](video.mp4 "title")
+  const title =
+    token.attrIndex('title') != -1
+      ? ` title="${md.utils.escapeHtml(
+          token.attrs[token.attrIndex('title')][1]
+        )}"`
+      : ''
+
+  const fallbackText =
+    translate(env.language, `html5 ${type} not supported`) +
+    '\n' +
+    translate(env.language, 'html5 media fallback link', [url])
+
+  const description = token.content
+    ? '\n' +
+      translate(env.language, 'html5 media description', [
+        md.utils.escapeHtml(token.content)
+      ])
+    : ''
+
+  return (
+    `<${type} src="${url}"${title}${attrs}>\n` +
+    `${fallbackText}${description}\n` +
+    `</${type}>`
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * The main plugin function, exported as module.exports
+ *
+ * @param {MarkdownIt} md
+ *  instance, automatically passed by md.use
+ * @param {Object} [options]
+ *  configuration
+ * @param {String} [options.videoAttrs='controls class="html5-video-player"']
+ *  attributes to include inside `<video>` tags
+ * @param {String} [options.audioAttrs='controls class="html5-audio-player"']
+ *  attributes to include inside `<audio>` tags
+ * @param {MessagesObj} [options.messages=built-in messages]
+ *  human-readable text that is part of the output
+ * @memberof HTML5Media
+ */
+export const html5Media = (
+  md: MarkdownIt & {
+    renderer: {
+      rules: {
+        video?: (tokens: any, idx: any, opt: any, env: any) => string
+        audio?: (tokens: any, idx: any, opt: any, env: any) => string
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  options: {
+    messages?: any
+    translateFn?: () => string
+    videoAttrs?: unknown
+    audioAttrs?: unknown
+  } = {}
+) => {
+  if (options.messages) {
+    messages = options.messages
+  }
+  if (options.translateFn) {
+    translate = options.translateFn
+  }
+
+  const videoAttrs =
+    options.videoAttrs !== undefined
+      ? options.videoAttrs
+      : 'controls class="html5-video-player"'
+  const audioAttrs =
+    options.audioAttrs !== undefined
+      ? options.audioAttrs
+      : 'controls class="html5-audio-player"'
+
+  md.inline.ruler.at('image', (tokens: any, silent: any) =>
+    tokenizeImagesAndMedia(tokens, silent, md)
+  )
+
+  md.renderer.rules.video = md.renderer.rules.audio = (
+    tokens: any,
+    idx: any,
+    opt: { html5Media: { videoAttrs: any; audioAttrs: any } },
+    env: any
+  ) => {
+    opt.html5Media = {
+      videoAttrs,
+      audioAttrs
+    }
+    return renderMedia(tokens, idx, opt, env, md)
+  }
+}