General help

Hi,

Good to see someone has worked on this!

I have a couple of questions that I think are worth discussing and hopefully that someone with more legal knowledge than me can answer.

I notice you didn't include a .fla file for the .swf

I'm not sure exactly how GPL licensing works but if you don't include the .fla so someone can recompile this does this mean that it can't be distributed under the GPL as part of Moodle?

I was looking for the fla to see if you had used any Macromedia components or had developed your own UI without using MM components. I guess if we do this with MM components again we can't distribute this under the GPL??

Probably your intention for now is not to release anything under the GPL anyway.

Jamie

I keep getting a error Module "FLV_filter" is not readable - check permissions  I have 777 permission for the entire folder.  Do you have any suggestions?

With this code , work fine for me ( change width, height and bgcolor if you want...)


if ($CFG->filter_mediaplugin_enable_flv) {
$search = '/<a(.*?)href=\"([^<]+)\.flv\"([^>]*)>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
$replace = '\0<br /><br /><object class="mediaplugin flv" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"';
$replace .= ' codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" ';
$replace .= ' width="320" height="240" id="flvplayer">';
$replace .= " <param name=\"movie\" value=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.swf?file=\2.flv&autoStart=false&bufferLength=5\" ";
$replace .= ' <param name="quality" value="high" />';
$replace .= ' <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />';
$replace .= " <param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"\2.flv&autoPlay=true&bufferLength=5\" ";
$replace .= "\n<embed src=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.swf?file=\2.flv&autoStart=false&bufferLength=5\" ";
$replace .= " quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" name=\"flvplayer\" ";
$replace .= ' type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ';
$replace .= '</embed>';
$replace .= '</object><br /><br />';

$text = preg_replace($search, $replace, $text);
}

I can't offer any help with this I'm afraid, but I'm desperate to find a solution too.  My swf with an embedded flv file works as long as I don't put it the swf in an html page.  This only happens on moodle and with both IE6 and Firefox.  Has anyone found any solution that lets you keep the swf in an html page (in my case as part of a SCORM package)?

Thanks

oops I found a version of the filter in the downlaods that works. I am having trouble keeping it from autoplaying however. any ideas?

I added a param to the filter thus

    if ($CFG->filter_mediaplugin_enable_flv) {
        $search = '/<a(.*?)href=\"([^<]+)\.flv\"([^>]*)>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
           
        $replace  = '\\0&nbsp;<object class="mediaplugin flv" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"';
        $replace .= ' codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" ';
        $replace .= ' width="180" height="120" id="flvplayer">';
        $replace .= " <param name=\"movie\" value=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.swf?file=\\2.flv\" />";
        $replace .= ' <param name="quality" value="high" />';
        $replace .= ' <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />';
        $replace .= ' <param name="flashvars" value="'.$c.'" />';
        $replace .= ' <param name="autoPlay" value="false" />';
        $replace .= " <embed src=\"$CFG->wwwroot/filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.swf?file=\\2.flv\" ";
        $replace .= "  quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" name=\"flvplayer\" ";
        $replace .= ' type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ';
       
        $replace .= ' flashvars="'.$c.'" ';
        $replace .= ' pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">';
        $replace .= '</embed>';
        $replace .= '</object>&nbsp;';
   
        $text = preg_replace($search, $replace, $text);
    }

and I added a parameter to the theme's config.sys

$THEME->resource_mp3player_colors =
 'bgColour=000000&btnColour=ffffff&btnBorderColour=cccccc&iconColour=000000&'.
 'iconOverColour=00cc00&trackColour=cccccc&handleColour=ffffff&loaderColour=ffffff&'.
 'font=Arial&fontColour=3333FF&buffer=10&waitForPlay=no&autoPlay=no';

/// With this you can control the colours of the "big" MP3 player
/// that is used for MP3 resources.


$THEME->filter_mediaplugin_colors =
 'bgColour=000000&btnColour=ffffff&btnBorderColour=cccccc&iconColour=000000&'.
 'iconOverColour=00cc00&trackColour=cccccc&handleColour=ffffff&loaderColour=ffffff&'.
 'waitForPlay=yes&autoPlay=no';

Oops -

I've been able to upload the files now from home. The first attempts were made from work, perhaps some network settings, proxy etc prevented me from uploading the file there.
However, somehow I feel I haven't activated the filter correctly, because I can't get the flv played within Moodle.

What I did was just to ftp all the files into the filter /multimedia folder within Moodle, thus overwriting the old multimedia filter. The multimedia filter is activated in the configuration, of course.
I desperately tried anything that could help, and found a line in the file filter.php saying
to activate this filter, add a line like this to your list of filters in your Filter configuration: filter/mediaplugin/filter.php

Perhaps I'm just a bit thick here, but I can't find a way to do this. In the filter configuration I just can activate the multimedia filter - and that's about it. What can I do here? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Uwe

My immediate response is "Something else" . I too use Riva to create my FLV's and have had no issues.

Uploading is also fine here.

Have you re-encoded?
Is moodle uploading files fine? HAve you checked the file size before and after uploading?

I suppose we can tke it from there.