[Xerte] Re: Media issue

[A-P. Lian]

Thank you - I will follow up. I am running on a recently-installed xampp
system on a windows box with the online toolkits installed as recommended. I
have not tried exporting the LO or serving flv files directly out of apache
but will do so.

Cheers
Andrew

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:05, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>wrote:

> If you export the LO and view locally does the .flv play then? It sounds
> like mime types on the server a quick search of the archives should tell you
> what's needed.****
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> Ron****
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *A-P. Lian
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> *Subject:* [Xerte] Media issue****
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> Hello everybody,****
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> I am struggling a little bit with videos. I understand that the videos
> which are playable through the online toolkits are .flv. However, the system
> does not seem to recognise my flv files (usually converted from mpg or
> something else). I really don't quite know what to do next. The only thing
> that I can think of is that the files are too big. Or maybe the flv files
> have to be in a special format (mine are the default files generated by the
> AVS video converter or by the Swish suite of programs)???****
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> Any help would be appreciated. The system seems to ignore them completely
> and nothing appears on the pages and the media preview complains that no
> file has been selected. It all seems to work ok with sound files.****
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> Thanks once again.****
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>
> Andrew****
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> PS I have tried other formats too - but no result...****
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> School of English
> Institute of Social Technology
> Suranaree University of Technology
> 111 University Avenue
> Muang District
> Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 30000
> Emeritus Professor , University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
> Vice-President of AsiaCALL
> e-mail: andrew.lian at andrewlian.com; website: http://www.andrewlian.com
>
> We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)
> The universe is made up of stories, not atoms (Muriel Rukeyser)
> When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
> (Max Planck)****
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