PoodLL and Flash

PoodLL and Flash

by Justin Hunt -
Number of replies: 3
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Yesterday Adobe Flash was getting death threats from Facebook and getting blocked by Firefox, after news of not just security errors, but in the wild exploits,  came to light.

PoodLL uses Adobe Flash mainly for audio/video recording, but it can be turned off if need be. Flash can also be turned off for the widgets, players and whiteboards. Information on how to do that is here:  http://poodll.com/flash-and-poodll/

In short, in the PoodLL filter settings, widgets, players and recorders can be limited to HTML5 only in the "When to use HTML5" section. The default whiteboard can be selected in the "Whiteboard settings" section. N.B. The non flash whiteboards (LiterallyCanvas and DrawingBoard.js) are not working properly in Moodle 2.9 yet.

I am not actually advising anyone to turn Flash off. I will leave that to people more knowledgeable than me. But if you are in a situation where you cannot use Flash, the above settings should do the job.

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In reply to Justin Hunt

Re: PoodLL and Flash

by Bhargava S -
Hi Justin,

For me, adobe flash player keeps crashing on Firefox 39.0
although it works on some other systems, with same version firefox.

Should I turn on adobe flash for poodll question type and if so how ?


In reply to Bhargava S

Re: PoodLL and Flash

by Bhargava S -

Hi Justin,

Sorry for this post.

I have now updated myself with what has been happening with adobe flash, and then firefox blocking it. I have also read properly the page referred by you about "Poodl and Flash".

I think i have to live with the circumstances, as regards Firefox, until adobe come up with fix patch and firefox again enables it.

My other query about mic gain uses chrome.


Regards.




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Re: PoodLL and Flash

by Justin Hunt -
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OK. I am working on a non flash solution too. But its hard to say when it will be ready

Justin