How to add video that can both stream and download?

How to add video that can both stream and download?

by Paul Masson -
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Hi Moodlers,

We post .wmv files for students as a maor component of their course.  I have been posting these to display 'in pop-up'.  Previously I thought they were able to also, with IE, right click and save as to save the target file.  Now with 2.3.2 the browser only wants to save a view.php file, not the target.

I have had poor results embedding .wmv files.

I would like for students to have the opportunity to both stream and download these files.

What is the best method to attain this?

Thanks,

Paul

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Re: How to add video that can both stream and download?

by Stan Bogdanov -

Hi Paul,

If you want to streem and download video, I'd suggest you convert the .wmv files to html5 recognizable formats: mp4, ogv, webm. They can easily be embedded in resources, played natively in browsers (without additional flash players) and downloadable at the same time.

The coverter I use for video is Miro Video converter (Win, Mac and Linux): http://www.mirovideoconverter.com 

Cheers

Stan

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Re: How to add video that can both stream and download?

by Paul Masson -

Stan,

Thank you for the suggestion.

I found that the php handler doesn't stream well, and eventually just post to YouTube and embedd.  They play much better.

I zip and post the video files for download as a separate item.

Not a perfect solution, but seems to work to the students satisfaction.

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