Curated list/Video clips

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.

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

Update --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
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

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

Formats

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

Possible work around

I'm not quite up with things enough to know, but maybe Poodll can help. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=270137#p1167048

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