Videofile: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:44, 1 September 2013

Videofile is a Moodle 2.5+ resource plugin intended to provide teachers with easy handling of cross-browser compatible videos using Video.js.

In most cases it should be enough to add .mp4 video files, which will then play in an html5 player on most browsers and in a flash player in older browsers.
You can add alternative formats in order to be sure it can play regardless of which browser is being used (usually .mp4, .ogv and .webm covers it.)

Videofile and Video.js also support WebVTT captions.
You can add several files in order to provide multilingual captions.
The file names, without extensions, will be used for the video caption option titles.
If the files are named according to ISO 6392 (e.g. eng.vtt fra.vtt tlh.vtt and swe.vtt) the options will be shown as the corresponding full language names according to the user's language preferences (e.g. English French Klingon and Swedish, assuming the user's preferred language is set to English).
If you include a caption file with a name different from ISO 6392 (e.g. calo.vtt) , the caption language name will be shown enclosed in double square brackets.
You can check the validity of your WebVTT captions with the http://quuz.org/webvtt/ validator created by Anne van Kesteren.
Captions are not available in iPads with iOS6 using Safari.

Videofile and Video.js also support a poster image that displays before the video is started.

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 * If you include a caption file with a name different from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes ISO 6392] (e.g. calo.vtt) , the caption language name will be shown enclosed in double square brackets.
 * You can check the validity of your WebVTT captions with the [http://quuz.org/webvtt/ http://quuz.org/webvtt/] validator created by Anne van Kesteren.
+* Captions are not available in iPads with iOS6 using Safari.
 ==Poster image==