How can I show the same HTML 5 Video twice on a website without loading it twice?

Question

I currently have 2 video elements on my html-page.
Both embed exactly the same .mp4 video from the same URL.

Is there any way to tell the browser

Answer 1

A simple solution can be to add a value to the end of the url with #anything

Since you are loading the video in one video element and want to load it again in a different video element, you can arrange it like below with a unique url: