[Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

Tue Dec 13 16:00:06 GMT 2011

Yes, that's what I thought. So you have a model and in the editor you just write some code.

What you see on the screen would depend entirely on the code you write, and the page would only contain one initial script icon, right?

So you could create icons in the script, append them to the page, and then let the parser handle them as usual.

Or you could load rlm xml from somewhere else and do whatever it did.

Soon, though, you might as well be using Xerte directly.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 December 2011 15:56
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

I meant instead of using expressions in filename spaces, just use a model and a normal script icon.

________________________________
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:46:46 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv
You want to make a whole page with one script icon in XOT?

myIconXML = new XML('<DIS x="20" y="20" w="500" h="10"/>');
icon.parentNode.appendChild(myIconXML);

etc?

Wow. Might have it's exciting moments trying to build an event driven interaction... but I like the way you think...

;-)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 December 2011 15:44
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

What's so wrong with a script icon .rlm?
Much less opaque.
:-)

________________________________
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:39:20 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv
And remember that the associated image will try and load the results of your script, because what's really happening is the image will try and load (expression(script(--yourcode--), engine), engine);

So with a bit of nous you could probably do some funky stuff and still load the image...

I have wondered whether having an optional parameter for all pages, initCode / exitCode would be useful as  way of executing custom code when pages initialise / exit.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 13 December 2011 15:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

In the file text box. On the other side, the string you type is passed through expression.

It offers a COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED way of executing code you type in the editor, because you could, if you really wanted to, do things like

script(_level0.engine.score = score);

but experiment at your own risk.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 December 2011 15:28
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

Where would I type it in XOT?

________________________________
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:09:44 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv
You could probably type (unescape(FileLocation + 'media/file.flv')) since it gets expressioned.

That might in fact mean you could do all sorts of interesting things...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 13 December 2011 14:16
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv

Someone on FlashCoders seemed to have the same issue and had to use unescape(path) in code.
Since you are using Toolkits, best if you could remove any spaces or odd characters from the apth and see if that solves it.

________________________________
From: brichard at glam.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:09:41 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Video problem in IE8 with .flv
Sadly, I can't provide a link for you. It's on our test server which is restricted to on-campus access only.

The presentation was made by one of our test users. She's used a media > video page with the video file path being FileLocation + 'media/Beth Pearce staff induction.flv'

I can see that there are spaces in the file name. Could this be causing the problem?

On 13 Dec 2011, at 12:02, Pat Lockley wrote:

is there a link we can hit from here?
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com<mailto:d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>> wrote:

>those three graphics appear instead.

The magnifying glass appears on the control bar of the working version.
Don't recognize that either.
??

________________________________
From: brichard at glam.ac.uk<mailto:brichard at glam.ac.uk>
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:46:35 +0000

Subject: [Xerte] Video problem in IE8 with .flv
Hi,

I've got an intermittent error with .flv files not loading in Xerte in IE 8.

This screenshot shows how the page should look with the video loaded correctly (XerteVideoNoError.png):

<XerteVideoNoError.png>

This screenshot shows the error (XerteVideoError.png):

<XerteVideoError.png>

As you can see the video fails to load and those three graphics appear instead. However, if you navigate through to the next page, then return to the video page, the video will load. Also, this does not happen every time in IE 8.

I've not seen this error in other browsers. The video is a short introduction, a few minutes at most.

Has anybody seen this bug, or similar, before?

Are there any solutions/workarounds?

Thanks

Barry

Barry Richards
Senior Multimedia Developer
Multimedia Development Team, LCSS-IS
University of Glamorgan
+44 (0)1443 48 2120

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ Xerte mailing list Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

_______________________________________________
Xerte mailing list
Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.   Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.

This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment
may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system:
you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the
University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

_______________________________________________
Xerte mailing list
Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.   Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.

This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment
may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system:
you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the
University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

Barry Richards
Senior Multimedia Developer
Multimedia Development Team, LCSS-IS
University of Glamorgan
+44 (0)1443 48 2120

_______________________________________________ Xerte mailing list Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

_______________________________________________ Xerte mailing list Xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/attachments/20111213/87447782/attachment-0001.html>