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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi John/all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>you may have tested already I guess but thought I should add that unfotunately Popcorn Maker doesn't appear to work on iPads :-( Curiously on my iPhone the video plays but no pop ups are shown but on my iPad the video doesn't play either. I've only been testing the clip on the homepage at </span><a href="https://popcorn.webmaker.org/">https://popcorn.webmaker.org/</a> but I've tried that with various browsers on my iPad and none work - shame!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ron<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <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...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Ron,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Wasn’t aware of Popcorn before – looks good, will have to give it a try.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US 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…<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <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...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know Fay isn't around until next week now but posting this now while I have time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ron<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474<br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html</a><br><br>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners.<br><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html">http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html</a><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>