diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index b3ef995..9c4dded 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     "sphinx.ext.napoleon",
     "sphinxawesome_theme",
     "sphinx_togglebutton",
+    "sphinxcontrib.video",
 ]
 html_title = project
 templates_path = ["_templates"]
diff --git a/docs/how_to_use.rst b/docs/how_to_use.rst
index 5a6ac22..c622ac9 100644
--- a/docs/how_to_use.rst
+++ b/docs/how_to_use.rst
@@ -20,11 +20,9 @@ The main function of ``mapflow`` is ``animate``, which creates a video from an `
    ds = xr.tutorial.open_dataset("era5-2mt-2019-03-uk.grib")
    animate(da=ds['t2m'].isel(time=slice(120)), path='animation.mp4')
 
-.. raw:: html
-
-    <video width="640" height="480" controls>
-      <source src="../_static/animation.mp4" type="video/mp4">
-    </video>
+.. video:: ../_static/animation.mp4
+   :width: 640
+   :height: 480
 
 Creating a static plot
 ----------------------
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index f34846c..f3687ac 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ sphinx-togglebutton
 xarray
 matplotlib
 geopandas
-tqdm
\ No newline at end of file
+tqdm
+sphinxcontrib-video
\ No newline at end of file