Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by A S -
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Hi guys, 

I am using Moodle2.6.2 (Build: 20140310)


Basically, within a course, when I create a 'folder' resource and upload flash video files within that folder, when you click on these videos, they get downloaded instead of getting played embedded on Moodle itself. 


When I don't create the folder resource, and upload a file directly via the "Add an activity/resource" option, the video plays!!


I need to have folders because I have a certain organization for materials within my courses. 


Please help. I've tried a lot of googling to no effect. 


Thanks

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by Leandro Barbosa Rodrigues -

Hi

Did you enable multimedia filters?

Http://moodlesite/admin/filters.php


And you config the media settings setting up video players?

http://moodlesite/admin/settings.php?section=mediasettings

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by A S -

All of these are enabled. The video when placed within folders still gets downloaded instead of playing embedded in the flow player. 


Any other thoughts?

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by Leandro Barbosa Rodrigues -

The resourse on course page is a folder? 

It must be a file. 

You must select one resourse per video link.



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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by A S -

But that's just my question... is it not at all possible to 'organize' these file resources (videos) into folders? 

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by Mary Cooch -
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You could put them into a Book resource. Then they would play embedded and yet still not use up space on your course.

Look at page 6 here http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/book/view.php?id=261&chapterid=6 You could have videos on every page/chapter.

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by A S -

Thank you! It's still not giving me that flexibility to organize it how I want to. 


I want to have at least two to three levels of 'folders' and then have my video content? 

Surely... there's got to be a way to do this?!

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by A S -

Still need help with this!


Thanks

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by Guillermo Madero -

By definition, and as mentioned in the documentation page, files in a folder resource are to be downloaded, not to be displayed nor played at the browser.

https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Folder

The downside is that at present you are forced to download files stored in a folder resource.

You have three options, basically:

1. Wait till a future version allows displaying folder contents.

2. Hack the code.

3. Use a different approach, as has already been recommended. You could create a book or a set of pages, or have a normal web page uploaded as a file; you could the videos into IMS content packages (or if you want to grade, then into SCORM).

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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Your problem is that the Moodle 2 resource known as "Folder resource" https://docs.moodle.org/en/Folderr_resource is not a filesystem directory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_%28computing%29 !

It is just a display mechanism similar to the omnipresent "desktop". Read: "Using a folder to display resources is neater than displaying files one by one in a list. It takes up less space on the course page."

This is a huge problem I have too with Moodle 2 as a teacher. And the scrambled storage mechanism is a system administrator's nightmare. I hope the developers will reconsider the repository concept in designing Moodle 3.
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Re: Help: Videos uploaded in folders are not playing

by John Doubleday -

I use a number of web based storage areas, all with different storage types, copy the code and past into Moodle,  Some with slide 'code' This idea may help.

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