[Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons

[Ron Mitchell]

Thanks Fay that's great!
Did you also see the discussion on the community forum about using YouTube
clips in the media lesson page? Inge had that working with YouTube but now
can't and neither can I but we  Vimeo does work and also YouTube does seem
to work fine with the synched video page. YouTube seem to have at least 3
different format links so not sure if that's the reason or if something
changed?
Cheers
Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
Sent: 10 June 2015 15:26
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons

I've just committed some code that allows this relative synching in the
media lesson page by using e.g. "+10" in the synch point fields.
 
 - Start synch points are relative to the previous sibling's start point
 - End synch points (normally added with an optional property) are relative
to that content's own start point

Where there is nested content (e.g. slideshows & subtitles) the 1st child
looks at the synch point of its parent while all subsequent children use
their previous sibling. Any content after the nested content will be
relative to the start point of the nested parent rather than any of its
children.

The synch points for each panel are calculated separately so content can
only be relative to content on the same panel.

You can also use relative synch points for jump points (e.g. when answering
a MCQ).

I'll look at adding something similar to the other media pages too (synched
video, transcript reader & audio slideshow)


-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
Sent: 03 June 2015 10:58
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons

I like this timings idea and it really shouldn't take long to add in. Like
you say, from what I can remember when I wrote the page template it
completely disregards the order in the editor and just sorts the content
from all panels by their synch point. If I get a chance I might be able to
look at it sometime.

Fay

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith,
Bradley
Sent: 27 May 2015 19:59
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons

I almost definitely won't have time to do much until after the conference
has started, though maybe if anyone is interested in working on it with me
at the Hackathon? Thanks for the offer of help, John, if we end up planning
something I'll be sure to include you in case you can take part remotely.

-Brad


> On May 27, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> If you want to fork a copy of xot and start building it Brad and send me a
reminder then i'll be happy to help... unfortunately I wont be in Baltimore
though!!
> 
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist | School of Health & Life Sciences
> 
> T: +44 (0)141 331 3989 | E: J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk Glasgow Caledonian 
> University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, Scotland, United Kingdom 
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney 
> [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 27 May 2015 15:33
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: An idea about timings in media lessons
> 
> That's a good idea: you're right, the timings are just timings, so adding
an intro will put everything out. It doesn't sound very difficult to
implement, do you fancy having a go at it?
> 
> See you in Baltimore!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, 
> Bradley
> Sent: 27 May 2015 15:27
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] An idea about timings in media lessons
> 
> (...and several other things, I guess.)
> 
> I've been playing around with the Media Lesson component and my head is
abuzz with ideas I'm looking forward to trying. One thing has occurred to
me, though: it looks like every event that you want to play during the video
takes a fixed synch point, and thus the order in which the events appear in
the editor has no bearing on when they actually show up.
> 
> Consider: Suppose I make a change to a video that adds a 15 second clip
starting 150 seconds in. Based on my limited experimentation so far, all of
my events with synch points >= 150 are now off by 15 seconds, right?
> 
> What if we supported synch points specified in either of two formats: "X",
meaning "X seconds into the video", or  "+X", meaning "X seconds after the
previous synch point"? This way if all of my synch points use the latter
format I only need up update the one immediately after new clip in my video.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Brad
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