Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 - "session has timed out" - embedded video

Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 - "session has timed out" - embedded video

Jonathan Thomas -
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The problem exists under the following conditions:

  • Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)
  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Windows Media Player 12
  • When you open an embedded video file in Moodle, the user gets logged out.  Moodle reports "session has timed out"

Known Workarounds:

  • Don't embed videos
  • Choose the "force download" option when editing is on
  • Use Mozilla Firefox instead, and install the "Windows Media Player Firefox plugin"

Server Info:

SUSE Linux 64bit, PHP 5.2.5, MySQL 5.0.26, Moodle 1.9.7, tried database and file sessions, tried disabling "suhosin" php plugin.

Does anyone know the solution to this? ...or have any ideas.

I've already read the post at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=143764

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回复Jonathan Thomas

Re: Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 - "session has timed out" - embedded video

Matt Bury -
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I'm not sure about your session problem but as far as video goes, I'd recommend using Flash based video rather than WMV. Flash based video and audio includes the following formats:

Apple Quicktime (MOV)
Apple MP4
Apple M4V
Apple M4A (audio)
Adobe FLV
Adobe F4V
Adobe F4A (audio)

For a comprehensive list and more details see this wiki page: http://code.google.com/p/moodle-mplayer/wiki/SupportedMediaTypes

There are plenty of media encoders, many of which are free, that will encode to any of these formats for you. I recommend encoding your videos from the original source video files rather than transcoding the WMV files you already have. Transcoding causes a substantial loss in video and audio quality.

I also wrote a blog article about it some time ago: http://matbury.com/wordpress/2009/07/09/video-formats-and-media-containers/

The best video player in Moodle, in my opinion ;) , is the Media Player module hosted here: http://code.google.com/p/moodle-mplayer/

I hope this helps! 微笑
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回复Matt Bury

Re: Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 - "session has timed out" - embedded video

Jonathan Thomas -
Many thanks for your advice on this.  I have passed your comments onto our Moodle person...
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回复Jonathan Thomas

Re: Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 - "session has timed out" - embedded video

Alan Dawson -
I'm suffering from the same problems here.

Windows XP
Internet explorer 7 and 8
Windows Media Player 9

I've done a packet capture and can see the page load in the web browser, and then windows media player request the video, using the moodle session id. The session becomes unset somehow, and the user becomes logged out.

Any good ideas how resolve this are appreciated.
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