[Xerte] Re: Emedding/delivering large video files in Xerte - performance impact?

[Naveed Hashmi]

Thanks Ron/Pat, we could store/deliver these videos via the following
(recently purchased) ...

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/mediasite/publishing

Naveed

On 25 March 2015 at 15:02, Pat Lockley (Pgogy) <info at pgogywebstuff.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> Depending on how techie you are / can get hold of, you could just install
> xerte to a server with streaming capabilities anyway.
>
> I am assuming Xerte stuff can be cached via apache settings and so on?
>
> Pat
>
> On 2015-03-25 10:39, Ron Mitchell wrote:
>
>> You are far better off providing a streaming service or getting users
>> to use an external service for large video files and embedding from
>> there.
>>
>> In the past when we only had the Flash player delivery of Xerte
>> content embedding from streaming services was a bit more problematic
>> but now with the html 5 player embed code can be added anywhere more
>> or less regardless of the service used.
>>
>> In some circumstance uploading small videos direct to an LO might be
>> justified but in most cases embedding from a streaming service is
>> always advisable.
>>
>> Performance impact of uploading and delivering direct obviously
>> depends on numbers but I suspect in reality this will be most
>> noticeable on mobile consumption via lower bandwidth connections where
>> a streaming service is always going to povide better learner
>> experience.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Naveed
>> Hashmi
>> SENT: 25 March 2015 14:24
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] Emedding/delivering large video files in Xerte -
>>
>> performance impact?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a newbie to XOT ... we are planning on implementing the Xerte
>> Online Toolkit Kits as a Univeristy wide service. One concern raised
>> was around the possibility of uploading and delivering large video
>> files embedded in the learning objects to many users. And the
>> expectation that multiple users would view the video at the same
>> time'ish. I expect there to be a performance impact due to bandwidth.
>> What are others doing? will XOT cope? or do you provide a link to a
>> video streaming service which stores all your video files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Naveed
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