[Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files

Tue Apr 20 14:15:01 BST 2010

We are hoping to start a commuity of Xerte users amongst the CALL community(s), using Xerte Online Toolkits, with content being published to the Xpert repository, to create a critical mass of language learning materials with contributions from all over the world. If that sounds like a party you'd like to join, then I can put you in touch with people here.

As all of the software is open source this has real potential - partners can take the toolkits software, install it in their own institutions, and publish to the Xpert repository very easily from toolkits,

J

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 2:11 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Random access to Video and audio files

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,

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.

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.

J

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

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Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages
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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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