[Building Sakai] Is there any video player that can be integrated with sakai.
Jehan Badshah
jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk
Sun Jan 15 02:46:47 PST 2012
Thanks Mathew and Stuart.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>wrote:
> Right, this is what something like Kaltura and bigger providers like
> Youtube do. If the video format isn't in something that it can play it will
> transcode it, typically to h.264 or flash. This would be something you'd
> have to provide on the server.
>
> Most suggestions are relating to using some external service to transcode,
> or are a wrapper around ffmpeg like perhaps (
> http://fmj-sf.net/ffmpeg-java/getting_started.php)
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502753/programmatically-convert-a-video-to-flv
>
>
> This solution would require some additional setup and documentation on the
> processing machine, as it's not native in java. You could also have some
> batch job that scans a directory and converts videos as well if this was a
> requirement. There's too many possibilities and closed video formats to
> expect to find a (free) web client to play every video.
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, D. Stuart Freeman <
> stuart.freeman at et.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>> It looks like it plays h.264 (mp4), webm, wmv, flv (flash), and mp3.
>> Pretty much every player plugin I've seen has a similarly limited list,
>> the way it plays out is that you have to have the server transcode
>> uploaded video to one or two of those formats depending on what you want
>> the end user experience to be like.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:26:45PM +0500, Jehan Badshah wrote:
>> > Impressive!
>> > �will it play any format of video (e.g, .dat, .mpeg, .flv etc ) ?
>> > I checked .3gp format is not playing.
>> > I have videos in more than one format.
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Matthew Jones <[1]
>> matthew at longsight.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > It seems like if you were developing a stand alone too, you'd just
>> want
>> > to use an application that can display the html5 video tag like�
>> > [2]http://mediaelementjs.com/. There are a few others out there
>> (flow &
>> > jw player), but this one looked like it had the least restrictive
>> > license and was pretty easy to use. It wasn't quite too simple to
>> > integrate as a CKEditor plugin because of the way the editor
>> handles
>> > objects in the view, but if you had some other UI for actually
>> adding
>> > videos from an external repository as you describe, then it should
>> have
>> > the best browser�compatibility.
>> > There are probably some old applets based on JMF, but the I'd
>> think that
>> > the video tag is going to have much wider compatibility and work
>> better
>> > nowadays.
>> > -Matthew
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Jehan Badshah
>> > <[3]jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks for replying.
>> > Our university having a�central�repository of documents,
>> accessible�to
>> > every one locally, containing documents, videos and audios, I
>> want to
>> > develop a tool for accessing that repository such that if a user
>> click
>> > on a video file then it should be played in a player like
>> > [4]youtube.com.
>> > Mathew!�CKEditor�is good option if one want to embed video to an
>> > assessment, assignment etc.
>> > any option other than flash and silverlight.
>> > What about JMF.
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Matthew Jones
>> > <[5]matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > If you're using FCKEditor (which was the default before 2.9)
>> then
>> > there is a button for embedding movies which uses the�
>> > [6]http://flv-player.net/�. I have recently been working to
>> convert
>> > this plugin to 2.9 (
>> > [7]https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21632�) for
>> CKEditor and
>> > it likely will be in the final release of 2.9.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jehan Badshah
>> > <[8]jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear All
>> > Is there any video player that can be integrated with sakai.
>> > I am using KALTURA but I want to host video in local
>> repository.
>> >
>> > Regards
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>> > References
>> >
>> > Visible links
>> > 1. mailto:matthew at longsight.com
>> > 2. http://mediaelementjs.com/
>> > 3. mailto:jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk
>> > 4. http://youtube.com/
>> > 5. mailto:matthew at longsight.com
>> > 6. http://flv-player.net/
>> > 7. https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-21632
>> > 8. mailto:jehan.badshah at nu.edu.pk
>> > 9.
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Jehan Badshah | Sr. Software Engineer
FAST - National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
A.K. Brohi Road, H-11/4, Islamabad
UAN: +92 (0)51 - 111 128 128 ext 344
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