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

Fri Feb 22 14:16:06 GMT 2013

I've got an iPad 4th gen and it's much better than a Samsung Galaxy Tab!!
;-)

Anyone gonna vote for a Windows tablet!? 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 22 February 2013 13:49
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 got a Samsung galaxy tab II 10.1" and it's much better than the ipad.

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] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:34 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...

Android is outselling iOS now, by about 5 to 1, but mostly on phones.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 22 February 2013 13:15
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched
video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...

Steve Jobs. Genius

Well, he is.

A marketing genius.

101: Teach the natives to want.

  _____  

From: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:51:24 +0000
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: what's the plan re video for pages like synched
video and the plain video page? Also Popcorn example...

>From my experience of iPads - the html5 support is shocking. Events don't
fire, the embedded QuickTime player sucks and so on.

Steve Jobs. Genius

Pgogy Webstuff - http://www.pgogywebstuff.com

Makers of web things of a fair to middling quality

On 22 Feb 2013, at 12:28, "Ron Mitchell" <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

Hi John/all

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
https://popcorn.webmaker.org/ but I've tried that with various browsers on
my iPad and none work - shame!

Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto: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] 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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