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

Sat Feb 23 08:56:05 GMT 2013

That reminds me of desktop Xerte.

Any thoughts of something in XOT, like you have displayed below, that could
be used to generate new HTML5 page models?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 21 February 2013 15:50, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>wrote:

> I’m quite excited about javascript at the moment, because with the new
> ‘site’ template you can write HTML directly into the text elements, to
> create stuff, in this case a button, but it could be a <canvas> and then
> write javascript to do stuff with it (see screenshots)
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>
>
> So that makes it a very simple template for non-techs to use to build
> sites out of text / images / video / sounds; but also very powerful for
> programmers to do the stuff they want to do. I’m just working on doing
> scripts via src= so you can include cdn libraries, there’s probably tons of
> other ideas around this as well, but I’m quite excited by what it brings.
>
>
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 21 February 2013 15:33
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like
> synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...
>
>
>
> I can see it taking on some of the stuff we’d have previously done in
> flash: so, for example, interactive graphs of functions, where you can
> change the parameters using sliders to see the impact on the graph, or
> other interactive elements. We have  quite a few things like that,
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 21 February 2013 15:07
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [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…
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>
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> 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
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:45 PM
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like
> synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...
>
>
>
> 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,
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Smith, John
> *Sent:* 21 February 2013 14:44
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like
> synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...
>
>
>
> 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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Ron Mitchell
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:41 PM
> *To:* 'For Xerte technical developers'
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] what's the plan re video for pages like synched
> video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...
>
>
>
> 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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