Note: If Sound, Image or Video are selected, the player will automatically look for the video file in the Moodle course files directory. Use "Choose or upload a file...".

Video URL: The source or location of the media file to be played.

• Click on the "Choose or upload a file..." button to play videos from the Moodle course files directory.
• Video file types can be an FLV, F4V, MOV, MP4 or any file type supported by Flash Player.
• If the video file is on a different domain to your Moodle, there must be a crossdomain.xml policy file on that domain. i.e. If your site URL is "http://mymoodle.com/", and the video file URL is "http://someotherserver.com/videos/sample_video.flv", then there must be a crossdomain.xml file at "http://someotherserver.com/crossdomain.xml". Some video hosting sites such as YouTube.com already have a "catchall" crossdomain.xml policy file installed, allowing you to consume media from them without any configuration being necessary. For further details, see: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14213.html
• You can also link to an XML playlist here. For more information about playlists, see: http://code.google.com/p/moodle-flv-player/wiki/UsingXMLPlaylists

Type: The type of media and type of delivery to be used for the Video URL provided. The settings are:

• default - a URL link to a video file available over the Internet. Must start with http://...
• Sound - a link to an MP3 or AAC file in the Moodle course files directory
• Image - a link to an image file in the Moodle course files directory
• Video - a link to a video file in the Moodle course files directory
• YouTube - a URL link to a video file hosted on YouTube
• Camera - (advanced) accesses the user's web camera if present and turned on
• HTTP Streaming - (advanced) consume media streams from an HTTP media server
• Lighttpd Streaming - (advanced) consume media streams from a Lighttpd media server
• RTMP Streaming - (advanced) consume media streams from an RTMP media server such Red5, Flash Media Server or Wowza. Please note: Do not include file extensions when using RTMP, i.e. "myvideofile" not "myvideofile.flv".

Streamer: (advanced) the gateway of the streaming server to be used (requires configuration by a developer). More than one streaming server configuration is possible.

 

Moodle Plugin Activity Module Developed by Matt Bury - http://matbury.com/

JW FLV Player Developed By Jeroen Wijering - http://www.longtailvideo.com/

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