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.

Skins

Skins are a quick and easy way to change the appearance of JW FLV Player. The FLV Player Activity Module comes supplied with 27 skins which you can select from a list.

JW FLV Player skins.

Plugins

Plugins add extra functionality to JW FLV Player. They are hosted on LongTail video's website so no downloading or installing is necessary. Available plugins are:

accessibility-1
viral-1
rateit-1
drelated-1
embed-1
tipjar-1
googlytics-1
revolt-1
yourlytics-1
yousearch-1 searchtoob-1
quickkeys-1
metaviewer-1
hd-1
soundproxy-1
clickproxy-1
subply-1

Find documentation and further details here.

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'

Documentation and help for JW FLV Player plugins are available here. Available plugins are: accessibility-1, viral-1, rateit-1, drelated-1, embed-1, tipjar-1, googlytics-1, revolt-1, yourlytics-1, yousearch-1, searchtoob-1, quickkeys-1, metaviewer-1, hd-1, soundproxy-1, clickproxy-1, subply-1

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'

Captioning

The FLV Player module makes it much easier to deploy captions with the JW FLV Player. Simply do the following:

Prepare the video and TimedText (RealText is also supported) files.
Upload them to the moodledata course directory (you can also upload these from the FLV Player module form)
Create an instance of the FLV Player module and select the video file and desired parameters.
Select Show Advanced if not already shown.
At the bottom of the Behaviour section, type accessibility-1 into the Plugins text input area.
Select Choose or upload file in the Timed Text Captions input area and select or upload and select the desired TimedText captions file.
Select Save changes (Moodle 1.8) or Save changes and preview (Moodle 1.9)

MAGpie2 captioning editor can export Adobe Flash WC3 DFXP captioning files which are compatible with JW FLV Player accessibility-1 plugin.

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.

Documentation