Hi
I've got a strange problem.
mp4 videofiles will not play in the lesson module; In the upload screen they play but saved in the lesson page they don't. The same video plays allright ( but in quite a small format, how to change this is another question, but at the moment the minor problem) in a Label or a the Test module.
TIA for the help
Willem
I have had this issue before. There is an old post somewhere about it. The trick is to simply change the extension from .mp4 to .flv before uploading it. For some reason, the player doesn't like the mp4 extension, even though it plays mp4 files.
Changing format from .mp4 to .flv works like a charm for me
What I do is just install the PoodLL filter, set it to display content and headings, and the make sure it is above the Multimedia plugins, in the Manage filters page.
The PoodLL filter plays .mp4 files just fine on Lesson pages, in Labels, and in test questions. If you also install the other parts of PoodlLL, they give even more versatility.
What you see in the preview window is the HTML5 player. From the screenshot it looks like when it is failing to play back it is trying to use quicktime. As Al said if you install and set up the PoodLL filter, PoodLL will handle it for you.
Or you could tell the multi media plugins filter to let html5 players handle it. Do that by going to
Site Admin -> appearance -> media embedding
ensure HTML5 video is checked, and Quicktime Player is unchecked. Does that work?
Hi Justin, Al and Brian,
Thanks for the replies
@Justin I already had enabled html5 and disabled quicktime . Isn't it strange the problem doesn't appear in a Test or a Label. What is so particular in the lesson module? Maybe Poodle will handle this but every extra plugin installed makes you're moodle update timeline more dependent on the maintenance of the plugins. Furthermore moodle mediaplayer itself should be able to handle this , it does the job at least in the other parts of moodle.
@Brian Browsing through earlier forumpost I found this workaround and tried it; but it didn't work, alas.
Hi ,
an update:
I've found out that the same video will play in the moodle demo sandbox installation. So the problem seems specific to our own installation.
Do you have suggestions where to look, what to alter?
php info is to big to be atttached but can be found here
TIA!
Willem
