<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div>There is a PDF JS library now as well</div> <br />Pgogy Webstuff http://www.pgogywebstuff.com<div>Makers of Web things of a fair to middling quality</div><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"For Xerte technical developers" <xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:07:16 +0000<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...<br /><br /><br /><div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">createJS is coming along nicely – would love to know what to do with it though…</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">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…</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Regards,</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">John Smith</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:45 PM<br /><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br /><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-gb" style="color:#1F497D;" xml:lang="en-gb">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,</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br /><b>Sent:</b> 21 February 2013 14:44<br /><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br /><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Hi Ron,</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Wasn’t aware of Popcorn before – looks good, will have to give it a try.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">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…</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Regards,</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">John Smith</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Learning Technologist</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">School of Health & Life Sciences</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Glasgow Caledonian University</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Mitchell<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:41 PM<br /><b>To:</b> 'For Xerte technical developers'<br /><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] what's the plan re video for pages like synched video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Hi all</span></p><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">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?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">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?</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">I know Fay isn't around until next week now but posting this now while I have time.</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Also perhaps relevant I'm not sure if you've seen or used Popcorn Maker
<a href="https://popcorn.webmaker.org/">https://popcorn.webmaker.org/</a> 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.
<a href="http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_html5_53">http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/xot/play_html5_53</a></span></p><p></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Cheers</span></p><p></p><p></p>
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