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Let the backend handle movies#27

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@komacke komacke commented Apr 1, 2026

NASA took down the server and host that provided the movies HC could play. HC just opened a brower tab. We should remove the dependency of the movie server from HC and let the backend figure it out. This keeps the filenames essentially the same but sends the browser to the backend which can serve up movies, redirect, or whatever.

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NASA took down the server and host that provided the movies HC could
play. HC just opened a brower tab. We should remove the dependency of
the movie server from HC and let the backend figure it out. This keeps
the filenames essentially the same but sends the browser to the backend
which can serve up movies, redirect, or whatever.
We observed the NASA page was down for a while. HamClock shouldn't bake
this URL into its code. It should direct its request to the backend.

The movie is a YouTube video so that backend could fall back to the
YouTube URL if the NASA page is down.
Keeping in the spirit of using the configured port, these URLs need to
point to the backend without https. The backend probably supports https
for f/w upgrades but we'll follow the standard of all the other
endpoints
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