[WG: Sakai QA] Testing Multimedia in Lessons - Re: [Building Sakai] request for help QAing Lessons for 2.9.3

[Neal Caidin]

Hi All,

We could still use help testing Lessons. Here is one example in detail.

The two main areas for testing are Media Resources and Gradebook/Regression. The Media test involves adding multimedia files (video and sound) and testing the playback on various browsers. The playback is what has changed significantly, I believe. But I'm testing upload as well and having problems uploading files from Windows 7/ IE 10 . Lessons -> Add Multimedia -> Upload file  .  I suspect it is something strange going on with uploading from a Mac using Windows 7 on Virtual Box. Could somebody please try uploading files. 

The file formats I've been testing are:

MP4
MOV
FLV
MP3
WAV
AVI	
WMA

They seem to play on all the browser/OS combinations I've tried, except for WMA is not playing on my Mac. I suspect a local plug-in problem. I've tested playback on Mac/Chrome, Mac/Firefox, Mac/Safari, and Windows 7/ IE 10.

Specific help I could use includes: 

* Test uploading files on Windows 7/ IE 10 (to Lessons, not to Resources)
* Feel free to verify my Mac testing
* Testing of other Windows combinations (Windows 8, IE 9,  Chrome and Firefox)


Thanks,
Neal Caidin

CLE Community Coordinator
neal.caidin at apereo.org
Skype: nealkdin



On Jun 23, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Hedrick Charles <hedrick at rutgers.edu> wrote:

> 2.9.3 is coming up very quickly. I'd appreciate any help in QA'ing the copy of Lessons that will come with it. A couple of changes have turned out to involve a lot more code that I had expected.
> 
> * In 2.9.1 Gradebook made a change so that any tool that uses Gradebook must implement a new API. Lessons did not. As a result, grades reported by Lessons were not shown to students, and probably were not included in final grade calculations. The same would be true of any contrib tools that had not been updated to implement the new API. I've fixed that. The code needs testing. Specifically it needs testing for graded comments, student content, and comments on student content, and it needs testing specifically when those items are limited to be accessible to specific groups (to the extent that that restriction is possible -- not all of them are group-aware).
> 
> * I had a report that MP4 video was not showing on the iPhone. That resulted in LSNBLDR-216. Initially I thought upgrading the player would fix it. However the problem turned out to be in the implementation of /access/lessonbuilder. In the process I fixed several issues: HTML5 is now used to display MP4, webm and ogg, if the browser supports HTML5 and it claims to support the MIME type for the video. Otherwise I next try the Strobe Flash-based player. Finally I use <OBJECT> or <EMBED>, which leaves it to the browser to find a player.  JWPlayer is no longer supported, for licensing reasons. (And the initially reason for using it no longer applies anyway.) I also fixed an issue that caused Quicktime embedding not to work (for browsers that have a Quicktime player, of course). Testing should include MP4, FLV, Quicktime, and if possible webm, ogg, and random types not explicitly supported. Please try as many different browsers as possible, including portable devices.
> 
> * I have simplified the build process. You now adjudge the <parent> declaration in the main pom.xml, and choose a profile for 2.8, 2.9, or 2.10. If you want support for contrib tools you enable the optional profile in tool/pom.xml. The build has been tested on 2.8. (Trunk has also been tested on 2.8.)
> 
> Note that there are database updates for moving to 2.9.2 and 2.9.3, both defined in files simplepage.for-2.9.[23].sql. There's also a script if you're moving from a pre-2.9 version of Lessons.
> 
> For multimedia tests, you may want to use sakai-29.rutgers.edu. It is running he current 1.4.x, and is a two-node cluster. Some of the code should be tested on a cluster.
> 
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