[Xerte] How to import DVD files

Fri Jan 16 09:57:04 GMT 2009

Hi Ashok,
After trying out a number of the free converters on offer, with mixed results, I ended up buying Swish 3 (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=video&tab=overview) which I’ve found to work best for me.  It has a free trial period, so you can make sure it meets your needs, and is fairly cheap.
Cheers,
Jason
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of ashok ranade
Sent: 15 January 2009 04:43
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] How to import DVD files

Dear Julian

I have got some movies from Sony DVD camcorder. They are in MPEG format. Flash does not seem to import them. Is there any way of opening them in Xerte?
Regards
Ashok Ranade

--- On Wed, 14/1/09, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
From: Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon
To: "Xerte discussion list" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 6:05 PM
Here are some good examples of Xerte content, both custom content and the default interface.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_560
Shows all of the page types you can create  with the pageTemplates Xerte template. If your technical skills are low, or you don’t write any code, this is a good example of the sort of content you can quite easily create.

Here is an example of real-life content created with toolkits by non-technical people
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_264

This is a good example of a toolkits project, extended with cutom flash movies to add in additional functionality not available in the template directly
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_508

This example uses the default interface, but custmises it a little bit:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_159

This is template that uses a custom interface
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_244

This is a project using a custom swf to control it:

These are completely custom projects, from the ground up, that show quite well what Xerte is capable of:
http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/7574a3e9-af2b-c959-7dc4-39b717fa50d8/1/ViewIMS.jsp
http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/0abf92ff-54cf-1cc2-aaff-cebf2fa073c0/1/ViewIMS.jsp
http://equella.nottingham.ac.uk/uon/items/e04e898f-45d0-98bc-04c2-437a7860bd89/1/ViewIMS.jsp

Hope that helps,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:53 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon

The property is .controller – that’s the loaded swf. You need to make sure that it’s loaded before you can address it’s properties,

J

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Huppertz
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:30 AM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] How to address contents in the rootIcon

Hi List,

I'm quite new to Xerte and try to create my first project using a custom made interface. The layout of the interface uses two different boxed to organize the content. Each box is a movieclip on the main timeline of the interface.swf file. I want to change the width of these boxes using scripts in Xerte. So I tried rootIcon.box1._width = 400 and rootIcon.clip.box1._width = 400 and even rootIcon.swf.box1._width = 400 - no luck. I couldn't find a hint in the Xerte help ... can you help me?

By the way: are there any complex learning objects out there that use custom made interfaces, combinations of built in functionalities and externally loaded flash files, etc. to learn from?

Thanks,

Peter

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