[samigo-team] Replacing Java applet with HTML5/Flash

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Hi all,

Is there an ETA on when I will receive Stanford's minimally-acceptable set
of features for inclusion?  Or was this up for the community to put
together?

--Sam


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Hi Sam,
> Would you be willing to demo this on March 5th, which is the next
> scheduled SAMigo meeting? I can't speak for the whole team here at
> Stanford, but if the rest of the interested community is in agreement that
> this is comprable to the Java app in high-level ways, I can't see why we
> would need to branch this. We could do it sooner on Tuesday March26
> instead, but it's a off week so people and possibly the conference room may
> already be booked. If you are willing, let me know date that is best (11
> pacific 2 eastern). Would be nice if you could show in chrome first, then
> in Safari.
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> I'm still unsure of why playback in the QuickTime player and in the popup
> window doesn't work for me--does it work for you? I have a MacBook Pro, if
> it matters. I thought at first that you were saying we'd be required to
> switch to them HTML5 audio player to enable this, but the QT player plays
> the au files from the Java recording app, so I wouldn't think that would be
> the case.
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> Regarding switching the player to HTML5 to remove QT dependency, that
> seems like a relatively easy thing to do, though I'm unclear of the
> advantages.  I've added this as SAM-2067 if you want to comment.
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> Keli
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Ottenhoff" <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
> To: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
> Cc: "Samigo Team" <samigo-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:13:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [samigo-team] Replacing Java applet with HTML5/Flash
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> and I could get the audio to playback (though for some reason, I can't
> recreate it). I will put in a JIRA and talk to our dev team. And I'll talk
> to Ken and Christine, --not that we'd add something, but it needs to have
> similar behavior to java recorder. I do notes the recording window no
> longer closes after upload, did that get removed.
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> Yeah, I removed the popup closing while I was doing more dev on it. The
> HTML5 recorder offers a timer, Flash fallback, attempt tracking, frequency
> display, and only changes a few files in Samigo. I believe Java on the
> desktop is dead. My recommendation would be to get a replacement intro
> trunk sooner than later, but if Stanford is committed to the Java applet,
> please let us know so I can get this work into a branch.
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> So are you creating just a wav file, or are you creating an mp3 as well so
> this can play on IE without a plugin? And your flash version of the applet
> creates the same file type(s)?
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> MP3 encoding is a patented process AFAIK. Maybe there is a Flash fallback
> to play the WAV in IE. if not, the Quicktime embed should continue to work
> with a little mime-type manipulation.
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> The Flash version of the recorder creates the same raw, uncompressed
> audio. AFAIK, WAV and AU and AIFF are all the same thing (just different
> mime types). Any audio experts lurking?
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> --Sam
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