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Revision as of 03:00, 5 February 2009
Summary
Download the FLV Player activity module here: FLV Player.zip
Jeroen Wijering's FLV Player is an ideal method to deploy Flash video in Moodle. It's extremely versatile and supports a number of features that are particularly useful for e-learning:
- Section 508 (accessibility) compliance.
- Support for Timed Text XML captioning.
- A selection of plugins and skins are available.
- Developers can create their own skins and plugins.
Supported Parameters
The FLV Activity Module makes it relatively easy to set the parameters listed here:
Skins
Plugins
Module Form
The module form allows users to set most of the parameters supported by JW FLV Player 4.3. You can find documentation on the following parameters here.
Source
- flvfile 'Video URL'
- type 'Type'
- streamer 'Streamer'
Appearance
- width 'Width'
- height 'Height'
- skin 'Skin'
- image 'Image'
- icons 'Icons'
- logo 'Logo'
- controlbar 'Control Bar'
- playlist 'Play List (position)'
- playlistsize 'Play List Size (pixels)'
- backcolor 'Back Color'
- frontcolor 'Front Color'
- lightcolor 'Light Color'
- screencolor 'Screen Color'
Behaviour
- autostart 'Auto Start'
- fullscreen 'Full Screen'
- volume 'Volume'
- mute 'Mute'
- flvstart 'Start (position in seconds)'
- duration 'Duration (seconds)'
- flvrepeat 'Repeat'
- shuffle 'Shuffle'
- bufferlength 'Buffer Length (seconds)'
- quality 'Quality'
- displayclick 'Display Click'
- link 'Link'
- linktarget 'Link Target'
- item 'Item'
- resizing 'Resizing'
- stretching 'Stretching'
- plugins 'Plugins'
- captions 'Timed Text Captions'
Metadata
- author 'Author'
- flvdate 'Date'
- title 'Title'
- description 'FLV Description'
- tags 'Tags'
Advanced
- configxml 'Config XML File'
- version 'JW Player Version'
- client 'Client'
- tracecall 'Trace Call (debugging)'
- flvid 'ID (For Linux OS Users Only)'
- abouttext 'About Text'
- aboutlink 'About Link'
Issues
- FLV Player module form is still not particularly user friendly. Should be more clearly grouped and annotated. Also should include a brief 'subtitle' for each parameter in a rollover help link so users don't have to click through to help pages.
- Plugins and skins currently link only to moodledata directory for each course. Plugins and skins cannot be shared across courses. Should create pugins and skins directories in the FLV Player module folder, although such a cinfiguration wouldn't allow users to upload new plugins and skins.
See Also
- Jeroen Wijering's web site Including plugins, skins, tutorials and licensing details.
- An article on the Closed Captioning component in Flash CS3 and its benefits for accessibility.
- Matt Bury's website FLV Activity Module project developer.
- Development:SWF SWF Activity Module, in development, which will enable deployment of Flash and Flex Framework learning applications (RIAs) in Moodle and leverage AMFPHP (Flash Remoting).
