[Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files

[A-P. Lian]

Hi Julian

Thanks for the prompt answer. I will take a look. It sounds just right.

AsiaCALL is not an affiliate of EuroCALL although we are obviously related
intellectually. You can take a look at http://asiacall.org for more
information but the site is not very informative right now as I have just
recreated it following an RFI attack. I/we would welcome closer links with
the older, more established associations like EuroCALL and CALICO although I
do know some of the people involved (at least in the past - I've been around
for a while) like Graham Davies and Bernd Rüschoff - and people like Sue
Otto etc at CALICO, and Mike Levy (worldcall etc.) wrote his PhD under my
supervision. We have affiliates in Asia like IndiaCALL and IndonesiaCALL and
other local associations are forming. We are about to decide a venue for our
9th International Conference to be held in November - probably either India
or Malaysia.

If Xerte meets my needs I will certainly use it, most likely in preference
to others. I need a stable, advanced but flexible environment to work with.
I do not need an LMS as such. I imagine that it provides easy access to
databases such as mysql - which is also critical to the kind of development
I have in mind.

All the very best - and let's keep in touch.
Andrew


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:49, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> Have you seen the mediaInteractions demo we have? This template has been
> designed with our language school and is specifically for designing language
> learning exercises: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/mediaInteractions<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Ecczjrt/mediaInteractions>.
> Is AsiaCall a sister to EuroCall? The EuroCall conference is here at
> Nottingham next year, and we’re hoping to work with the Call community to
> develop some of this work – language learning materials have a lot of
> potential with multimedia.
>
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> You can control the playback of video by seeking to thepoint you want to
> play from, and stopping playback when you reach a aprticular time / frame,
> yes.
>
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> J
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *A-P. Lian
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:41 PM
> *To:* xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files
>
>
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I have been on the listserv for a while but not very active. I am impressed
> by Xerte though not at all experienced in it and would like to invest some
> time developing materials on it for language learning. However, before doing
> so, there is one functionality that I absolutely need. So here is my
> question:
>
> Is there some way to access video and audio files randomly i.e. from point
> A to point B.
>
> Imagine we have a 10-minute video clip. I would like to be able to play
> back a segment of that clip, say from 1.5 minutes to 1.75 minutes or from
> frame 500 to frame 600 or something like that.
>
> I also want to be able to assign the values of point A and point B
> dynamically (I do not want to have to pre-set start and end points).
>
> Is it possible to do that with the tools provided in Xerte?
>
> There are two advantages to this:
>
> (a) I do not have to have multiple audio/video files and
> (b) I do not have to pre-set the start and ending points.
>
> Thanks for any assistance
> Andrew
>
>
> --
> Professor Dr Andrew Lian
> Vice-President of AsiaCALL
> Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages
> Western Illinois University
> Macomb, IL, 61455, USA
> e-mail: AP-Lian at wiu.edu; website: http://www.andrewlian.com
> Phone: +1 (309) 298-1558; Fax: +1 (309) 298-1060
>
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>
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-- 
Professor Dr Andrew Lian
Vice-President of AsiaCALL
Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL, 61455, USA
e-mail: AP-Lian at wiu.edu; website: http://www.andrewlian.com
Phone: +1 (309) 298-1558; Fax: +1 (309) 298-1060

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anaïs Nin)
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms (Muriel Rukeyser)

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
(Max Planck)
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