Multimedia plugins FAQ

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What is the best way of Embedding media in Moodle?

Sizing of windows in a popup to match media, or of the embed is a problem. Access to the right quality of player often means adding more code. At present Flowplayer is used. ?d=640x480 doesn't work any more.

1. Interesting discussion on Moodle Mahem list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!topic/moodlemayhem/txt_5pNwATk
2. Playing Flash FLV & SWF in MOODLE 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=163374
3. What about SWF? There have been some security worries on using SWF. But tha advantage is that it comes with a player bundled in it.

Tracker issues:

1. http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/PULL-96

How can I have embedded media resized appropriately?

Some thoughts on this are still in development.

1. Detect size of file: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-8984
2. Patch: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-23870

An extract from here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=169935

You can also add specific dimentions to the end of the attribute HREF inside the anchor <A> tag.

<a href="link-to-some-flash-file.swf?d=480x640">Flash File</a>

Please pay attention to the ?d=480x640 part of the code, which you have to put in, yourself. by switching from HTML mode into TEXT mode.

Change settings in 2.0

Hi, I am using Moodle 2.0 (Build: 20101214) for streaming lecture videos. The vids are encoded as FLV (flash video), H.263 video and MP3 audio. Aspect ratio is 4:3 (640x480). I upload the vids to a repository, and use the "add a file" feature.

The built-in player (flowplayer 3.2.3) works nicely, until you attempt fullscreen viewing. Flowplayer apparently has the scaling set to 'scale', which fills the screen and ignores aspect ratios.

from http://flowplayer.org/documentation/configuration/clips.html, I see that available scaling options are:

   * fit: Fit to window by preserving the aspect ratio encoded in the file's metadata.
   * half: Half-size (preserves aspect ratio)
   * orig: Use the dimensions encoded in the file. If the video is too big for the available space, the video is scaled using the 'fit' option.
   * scale: Scale the video to fill all available space. Ignores the dimensions in the metadata. This is the default setting.

My question is, how do I change this setting? where would I find it?" Useful information to have, maybe.