[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 17:51:47 GMT 2013

Hi Julian

is the Bootstrap carousel stuff part of what you've included or plan to
include?

I could see a whole raft of interest from currently non-xerte users if there
was an easy way to create that sort of thing e.g. for Moodle
homepages/course pages etc.

Ron

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 15:51
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'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)

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.

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] 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.

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] 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] 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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