What is the format of the video?
mp4, mv4 and mov
thoughts anyone?
can't run on the iPad then I guess
No ideas anyone? I've just discovered the same issue. No mp4, mov, etc. with safari on iPad. Can't do itwith any of the moodle 2.x iPad apps that are available either.
We are having no trouble viewing MP4 videos on iPad. You could check out one on our site (login as guest)
http://sailanyway.org/moodle/mod/page/view.php?id=360
For what it is worth:
Good luck
Mike
Michael,
This may seem like a good workaround.
However, it seems like it defeats the purpose of making it work as what Moodle has and was designed to do - play embedded videos using the tools it has for non-technical users.
That being said ... the iPad has introduced the need for, hopefully, temporary work arounds. Our clients are heavy users of iPads. As much as we wanted to use Flash we don't because of the issues with iPad. We use MP4 and it is working.
For the person that asked how to get at the HTML...
On the text editor for Page, Quiz, Lesson or whatever Resource/Activity we click on the HTML icon.
Once the HTML screen is open we copy and paste the following HTML:
<table style="border: 10px solid #a9a9a9; width: 490px; height: 290px;" align="center" border="10" cellpadding="5">
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 10px;">
<td>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;">Instructions: Watch presentation then return to course.</span></h3>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center;">REPLACE THIS WITH iFRAME CODE FROM VIMEO OR YOUTUBE</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 10px;">
<td>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Return to course main page link" href="http://XYZ.COM">Click here to return to course main page.</a></span></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Once we paste the above HTML we tab over to Vimeo (YouTube or wherever iFrame embed code is provided), we copy the iFrame code and then replace the red font section above with that iFrame code.
We also find it helpful to provide a link directly back to where we want the user to go after viewing the video so we replace the http://XYZ.com with the URL to another page on our Moodle site.
All of the above combined will create a 3 row table, it will place some instructions in the first row, the video in the second row and then the link to return in the last row. The code also centers the table on the screen and places a gray border around it. We came up with the width by trial and error testing on iPads, Macs and PCs to get the widest possible (490px) without cutting off the right side or causing the browser to add the scroll bars.
Vimeo allows the admin to create some standard settings. In those settings we tell Vimeo to create the iFrame code using height="270" width="480. These are just slightly smaller than the table cell so by the time a border is added the video fits snuggly inside of it.
Works for us anyhow.
Just to add to Michael's comment, safari and chrome seem to require some plugin when embedding is done with object tag but are comfortable with embedding in iframe.
After you embed your video go into the HTML version of the page and change the link to the video from this:
<a href="http://YOURVIDEOURLHERE"> </a>
to
<embed src="http://YOURVIDEOURLHERE" />
Inside that tag you can set your height & width. The only problem is that if your video size is too large then you will have problems and probably have to find a way to resize it. I also change the autoplay by entering autoplay="autoplay".
That's the only way I've been able to get an embedded video from a file to work across browsers and devices. The easiest solution would be to post the video to YouTube and embed it that way.
How do you get to the "HTML version" of an embedded file in the first place? I don't see that option anywhere for a file resource uploaded.
All I see is the option to select the options for the drop down (embed, pop-up, automatic,e tc.) when trying to edit that file resource.
?
John, Wherever you embed the file you want to click on HTML in the WYSIWYG editor to edit the HTML. I'm guessing that you're uploading a file and not adding a Page, Label, Assignment, etc.
You will have to actually have to embed the video in order for it to work.
That is correct Jon.
We are not embedding the video from a page, label, etc.
What we have done is to add a file as a resource and selected "embedded". when that resource is loaded/viewed by the user.
There is no way to do it the "html code edit" way if it's added as a resource.
You can see embedded videos on moodle from an iPad. But you have to make sure the video is the right format, etc. You'll have to take into account Apple specifications:
"The following compression standards are supported:
H.264 Baseline Profile Level 3.0 video, up to 640 x 480 at 30 fps. Note that B frames are not supported in the Baseline profile.
MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Simple Profile)
AAC-LC audio, up to 48 kHz
Movie files with the extensions .mov, .mp4, .m4v, and .3gp are supported.
Any movies or audio files that can play on iPod play correctly on iPhone.
If you export your movies using QuickTime Pro 7.2, as described in "Encoding Video for Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE,” then you can be sure that they are optimized to play on iOS".
The video should then work. It does for me!
