You could turn off filters for any individual resource. This would leave your link intact instead of using the multimedia filter to embed a player. I doubt you would want to turn it off for the entire course page though. Are you able to achieve what you want using the "disable auto linking" icon on the editor?
If I upload a video as a file resource, I can edit the settings, and then click "Filters' in the settings block to turn off the multimedia filter. If you are placing this on your course page, you might need to turn off the multimedia filter at the course level. My concern with doing this is it will turn off the filter for any media clip. Some, you might want to stream.
Another option is to paste your code, swirch to the html editor in your profile, and use the disable auto-linking icon. You can then switch back to standard web forms.
Hi Visvanath,
You can try and use an url shortner.
1. Shorten the link (e.g. Google URL Shortener) that points to the video.
2. At the Page content box, write the original URL and convert it into a link:
2.1 Select the text to be converted.
2.2 Click on the Insert/edit link button.
2.3 In the Link URL box put the shortened URL.
2.4 In the Title box write some title.
3. Save the page.
The code for the link should look like this:
<p>
<a href="http://goo.gl/9oYXr5"
title="helicopter">http://demo.moodle.net/pluginfile.php/25/mod_resource/content/1/Helicopter.mp4</a>;
</p>
The following image shows how the links looks like:
1. at the page (top section)
2. at the HTML editor in normal mode (middle)
3. at the HTML editor in HTML mode (bottom)
Cheers!
Hi Visvanath,
Yes, going against the flow has its issues; most people want a video instead of a link.
As already mentioned, the best solution would be to disable the multimedia filter: Course administration > Filters, Multimedia plugins=Off. This of course, will avoid any multimedia link in the course to be filtered and converted.
The other option would be to open a tracker and ask for the <noembed> tag you originally mentioned
Anyway, I wouldn't say the process is that lengthy, one only needs to add the URL shortner step, and one has to do this so the filter doesn't detect that the link refers to a multimedia object.
Hi Visvanath,
All things considered, I would definitely use the filter option (turning multimedia off), and for those particular cases in which the video must actually be displayed, then I would use the <video> tag:
<video>
<source src="http://pathtovideo/demo.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="http://pathtovideo/demo.webm" type="video/webm" />
</video>
Excellent!
