Video url when writing and reading json not working

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hi,

i want to write ‘exercises’ into a json file and read it back later (for caching). they can contain several videos. i do so in my write json function:

foreach ($exercises as $exercise) {
        $categoryData['exercises'][] = array(
            'title' => $exercise->title(),
            'editlink' => $exercise->panel()->url(),
            'text' => $exercise->text()->kirbytext(),
            'vids' => $exercise->videos()->filterBy("extension", "mp4"),
            'dauer' => $exercise->dauer()
        );
    }

this ends up like this in json file

"vids":{"data":{"richard/categories/video1.mp4":{"content":null,"translations":null},"{"richard/categories/video2.mp4":{"content":null,"translations":null}}}

then i my template:

<?php foreach ($exercise['vids']['data'] as $videoUrl => $videoData) { ?>
                              <div class="video"> <video controls><source src="<?= $site->url() ?>/<?= $videoUrl ?>" type="video/mp4"></video></div>
                         <?php } ?>

the videos dont show up.
this is from the source code

video controls><source src="http://localhost/ueben/richard/categories/repertoire/video1.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video>

in contrast from previous version of my site using normal kirby objects the links are different and point to the media folder…

<video controls><source src="http://localhost/ueben/media/pages/richard/categories//a8f31ee611-1684178189/video2.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video>

these links work.

so i beg to ask how can i get the right video urls into my array to put into the json file?
tnx for any idea!

greetz,

fusi

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Exactly, the url must come from the media folder, so instead of manually generating a url, convert the files collection to an array of urls:

'vids' => $exercise->videos()->filterBy("extension", "mp4")->pluck('url', ',',),
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