FLV Player

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:

• JW FLV Player supported FlashVars

Skins

• Download skins to change JW FLV Player appearance

Plugins

• Download plugins to add new features to JW FLV Player

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

If you have any problems or issues with the FLV Player module, please list them, as clearly as you can, here.

Resolved Issues

• Browsers cached video files, images, icons and XML files. Users still saw old (cached files) after they had been updated on the server.

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).