Curated list/Video clips

Overview: deploying video

Many courses benefit from video clips. At present there is not a quick way and a simple way to deploy video into a Moodle courses.

If you drag and drop the size and formatting is fixed.
If you insert into a label, you need to add coding to get it how you want.

It may be true that philosophically Moodle is wanting to support external repositories, and may be not interested in enhancing file upload processes further.

One user scenario is this: Even if you have a repository, you sometimes have a quick video you want to upload to clarify, enhance, introduce something. You'd like: Record, click, upload, done. When the course gets updated, this video clip can be deleted and then cleaned up in the Moodle trash collection.

Drag and Drop

At the moment, you can have any size you like, provided it is 400X315. The comment below is from Guilermo

 The video is resized because the MP4 filter calls the Quicktime plugin with a predefined size of 400x315 px:
 <object *** width="400" height="315">
 <param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
 <param name="src" value="http://localhost/moodle25/pluginfile.php/100/mod_resource/content/0/video.mp4" />
 If you rename the file to an FLV extension before uploading, then the video will be processed by Flowplayer.

This could benefit with a fix. A tracker item is here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46762

The Player in Core (Flowplayer)

The size is controlled by a filter: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268909#p1160636
Flowplayer can play MP4's: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=270137#p1167048

Size of thumbnails

Thumbnail size seems to be arbitrarily decided. Probably also hard coded.

Possible work around

Some posts have suggested PooDLL as an option

Feature Request

After some encouragement from Marina, I have posted a Feature request

Post here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268909 I am unclear about Flowplayer if we have the Flash version or not in Moodle core. https://flowplayer.org/ I am not even sure what this means. If someone feels like some coding, this will be a great addition!! --Derek Chirnside (talk) 13:09, 8 September 2014 (WST)
Tracker item: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46762

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