[Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched videoand the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...

[Smith, John]

Yeah and a few that can interpret swfs, although they're not mature yet.

Also learned only the other day that you can run native x86 code in Chrome now too so browser based apps could soon surpass what even html5 and js can achieve.

Happy days... :-)

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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"xerte at pgogywebstuff.com" <xerte at pgogywebstuff.com> wrote:


There is a PDF JS library now as well

Pgogy Webstuff http://www.pgogywebstuff.com
Makers of Web things of a fair to middling quality


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[Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...


createJS is coming along nicely – would love to know what to do with it though…


I suppose we could create a wizard that allowed you to upload a media object (picture/audio/video/other), give it a name and then attach a script which is sent to the player and processed… that would be neat…


Regards,


John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University


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I’ve been thinking about doing some stuff with popcorn as well, the other libraries of interest are the createJS set which look quite cool,


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Hi Ron,


Wasn’t aware of Popcorn before – looks good, will have to give it a try.


As for the videos, it should be possible to add a check for different video types but I’ll wait to catch up with Fay when she returns. Fay shared a page with me a while ago that had multiple audio and video formats and there were considerable problems getting them to play in all the browsers so maybe that has to be explored and we might need to have more than just mp4 and flv types, based on the supported browsers list… same goes for audio – we could actually build this into the xenith code and detect the browser and try the recommended video extensions. There’s no file_exists() command in js though so to test for existence would require an ajax request which could delay the video appearing…


Regards,


John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
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Hi all
a quick question about this... I always advise people to use streaming services for video wherever possible and with the HTML 5 playback it's obviously much more flexible now regarding what can be used and in which page type which is great. However there are some occasions where it's justified to upload a small video direct to an LO especially to use the synched video page functionality but even just the plain video page too. For Flash playback obviously it's still an flv that needs to be uploaded but what's the current plan for HTML 5? I know there's been all sorts of previous discussion about player licensing and codecs etc but has anything been decided?


Is there perhaps a solution to check for an mp4 in the HTML 5 model with the same name as the .flv and if it exists use that instead of the .flv via html 5?


I know Fay isn't around until next week now but posting this now while I have time.


Also perhaps relevant I'm not sure if you've seen or used Popcorn Maker https://popcorn.webmaker.org/ but that provides a quick way of adding all sorts of synched events to video's and works well via the embed content page e.g. http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_html5_53


Cheers
Ron



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