[Xerte] Re: Media issue

[Julian Tenney]

It expects .flvs with metadata, which some encoders miss out. Try an encoder known to work, like FormatFactory, or use the flvmdi tool included in the main xerte download which can inject metadata into the flv files,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of A-P. Lian
Sent: 19 October 2011 11:55
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Media issue

Thanks Julian

However, here is the thing. If I load the cafe_townsend_chef.flv file which comes in the setup folder in the xerteonline toolkits, it works perfectly. On another machine, it also played another .flv file made by someone else. It looks like it is having trouble playing files that I converted from mpg or wherever using the AVS converter or other programs. This happens on b oth machines. Does that make sense? Does the system expect a particular .flv file and, if so, what are its characteristics?

Thanks for any help
Andrwe


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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 16:53, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
There might be some flv viewers, so if you have one installed, and .flv associated with it, it should play...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 18 October 2011 21:05
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Media issue

The .flv MIME type is set on the server?
Will an .flv work outside of Xerte?
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From: andrew.lian at andrewlian.com<mailto:andrew.lian at andrewlian.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:44:22 +0700
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Media issue

Hello everybody,

I am struggling a little bit with videos. I understand that the videos which are playable through the online toolkits are .flv. However, the system does not seem to recognise my flv files (usually converted from mpg or something else). I really don't quite know what to do next. The only thing that I can think of is that the files are too big. Or maybe the flv files have to be in a special format (mine are the default files generated by the AVS video converter or by the Swish suite of programs)???

Any help would be appreciated. The system seems to ignore them completely and nothing appears on the pages and the media preview complains that no file has been selected. It all seems to work ok with sound files.

Thanks once again.

Andrew
PS I have tried other formats too - but no result...

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Suranaree University of Technology
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Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, 30000
Emeritus Professor , University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Vice-President of AsiaCALL
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