Curated list/Video clips: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:52, 3 September 2014

Just a start - more to come. --Derek Chirnside (talk) 04:50, 27 August 2014 (WST)

Updated with tracker link. --Derek Chirnside (talk) 09:52, 3 September 2014 (WST)

Overview

Many courses benefit from video clips. At present there is not a quick way and 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.

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

Using Flowplayer to play all video formats.

Size of thumbnails

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

Formats

A tracker item is here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46762

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 Just a start - more to come. --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 04:50, 27 August 2014 (WST)
-Many courses benefit from video clips.
+Updated with tracker link.  --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 09:52, 3 September 2014 (WST)
-At present there is not a quick way to deploy video in a Moodle courses and formatting of the look/size usually needs coding.
+===Overview===
+Many courses benefit from video clips.  At present there is not a quick way and 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.
+===Drag and Drop===
+At the moment, you can have any size you like, provided it is 400X315.  The comment below is from [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=266340#p1152013 Guilermo]
-===Drag and Drop===
+  The video is resized because the MP4 filter calls the Quicktime plugin with a predefined size of 400x315 px:
-At the moment, you can have any size you like, provided it is . . .
+  <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===
+Using Flowplayer to play all video formats.
 ===Size of thumbnails===
+Thumbnail size seems to be arbitrarily decided.  Probably also hard coded.
 ===Formats===
+A tracker item is here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46762

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