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


===The Player===
===The Player in Core (Flowplayer)===
Update --[[User:Derek Chirnside|Derek Chirnside]] ([[User talk:Derek Chirnside|talk]]) 10:18, 25 September 2014 (WST)
#The size is controlled by a filter: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268909#p1160636   
#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
#Flowplayer can play MP4's: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=270137#p1167048
Using Flowplayer to play all video formats is possible.  Is there anyone interested in providing a patch?


===Size of thumbnails===
===Size of thumbnails===

Revision as of 20:22, 8 October 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: deploying video

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.

It may be true that philosophically Moodle is wanting to support external repositories, and may be not interested in enhancing file upload processes further. The user scenario is this: you have a quick video you want to upload to clarify, enhance, introduce something. Record click upload, done. When the course gets update, this little quick video clip can be deleted and then cleaned up in the Moodle trash collection. Adding it to a repository, clicking a few more links to deploy it may suit sometimes.

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)

  1. The size is controlled by a filter: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268909#p1160636
  2. 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

  1. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=270137#p1167048
  2. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=253094

Feature Request

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