[Xerte-dev] Re: Video playback quality in html5 LOs.

[Julian Tenney]

> The existing Javascript code attempts to look for an .mp4 to go with an .flv, so we'll just write something simple to create a .mp4 if an .flv exists with no partner .mp4.

Not sure this is something I'd want to add to the distribution - BTW, .flv will play in the html5 templates as it stands:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10274



-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 15 May 2014 13:23
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Video playback quality in html5 LOs.



On 15/05/14 12:56, Julian Tenney wrote:
> Yes, that's why an flv snuck through: the door is open to flv for those still using the flash runtime.But we should get to a point when Flash is dead to us soon.
>
> If you upload high quality video, it will play back high quality as things stand. If you upload poor quality, it doesn't matter how you re-encode it, it will remain poor quality.
>

Yes.

I was planning to upgrade to Hollywood OS next year for the infinite magnification and enhancement capabilities.

> If you automagically encode it to different formats, you have to make some big assumptions and there are trade-offs between quality and bandwidth.

Yes. But at least it'd work. I had the impression that the organisation produced .flv videos by default - so transcoding to .mp4 would be useful to them.

The existing Javascript code attempts to look for an .mp4 to go with an .flv, so we'll just write something simple to create a .mp4 if an .flv exists with no partner .mp4.



David.


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