AutoView Presenter

Activities ::: mod_autoview
Maintained by Me !Tim Williams
Lecture capture system, supporting synchronised slides and subtitles with a web editing interface.
Latest release:
37 sites
13 downloads
13 fans
Current versions available: 4

AutoView presenter is a Lecture Capture module which allows you to put video on-line with synchronised slides and subtitles. A simple web based editing interface is used to configure the video/slide/subtitle sources and to set the slide trigger times.

This release introduces some major changes. All legacy plugin support, excepting Flash has been dropped, video sources configured to use legacy plugins will no longer be displayed, although they will continue to show in the editor as "Legacy Videos". Flash videos will continue to work as before. Support for HLS and DASH streaming has been incorporated, videos in these formats can be uploaded to the Course Files Area Repository using the Repository File Manager block (we recommend you upload as a single zip file and unzip on the server).

A basic content migration tool has been incorporated into the admin interface, which can be used to convert legacy video formats into HTML5 compatible videos, it is recommended to use this tool if you do not already have HTML5 video sources.

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  • Tamao Araki
    man., 28 sep. 2015, 16:13
    Hello,
    Thank you for making and maitaining the useful plugin. I wish I have the Japanese interface with this tool and add the Japanese subtitles to the video material. Is it possible, and if it is, what can I do for you? I am not a moodle specialist but have an experience of using moodle for about 10 years and some knowledge about PHP. Thank you for your kind attention.
  • Me !
    lør., 10 okt. 2015, 00:04
    Hi Tamao,

    I'll happily put your translation into the official download, email me on tmw@autotrain.org for a quicker response. You'll find the translation guide on the AutoView website, see http://autoview.autotrain.org/mod/page/view.php?id=29 .

    I've got some updates sitting on my dev system, which are primarily aimed at integrating the DASH-IF player into AutoView so that you can play video streams in any browser which supports the Media Source Extensions API. I just need to find time to finish the testing and put out the update. I've had a lot of 3rd party work the last few months. I'll try and fix the AMOS issue at the same time.

    Tim W
  • Tamao Araki
    søn., 11 okt. 2015, 17:38
    Hi Tim,
    Thanks for the guide for translation and the latest info about the development. I will start translating the phrases into Japanese soon. I may contact you via your e-mail address during this task.

    The addition of another streaming function sounds just wonderful. I look forward to the next update. Thank you again for your work on this excellent plugin.

    TA
  • Jarosław Maciejewski
    tir., 17 nov. 2015, 00:17
    Hello,

    Please update your plugin for Moodle v3.0

    While installating I get errors [all text with debugging option on]:

    Unsupported $module syntax detected in version.php of the mod_autoview plugin.
    line 322 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to debugging()
    line 348 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->load_present_plugins()
    line 217 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_present_plugins()
    line 143 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base->load_disk_version()
    line 97 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::make_plugin_instance()
    line 408 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::get_plugins()
    line 368 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins_of_type()
    line 758 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins()
    line 668 of /admin/index.php: call to core_plugin_manager->all_plugins_ok()
    Plugin mod_autoview does not declare valid $plugin->component in its version.php.
    line 328 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to debugging()
    line 348 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->load_present_plugins()
    line 217 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_present_plugins()
    line 143 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base->load_disk_version()
    line 97 of /lib/classes/plugininfo/base.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::make_plugin_instance()
    line 408 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core\plugininfo\base::get_plugins()
    line 368 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins_of_type()
    line 758 of /lib/classes/plugin_manager.php: call to core_plugin_manager->get_plugins()
    line 668 of /admin/index.php: call to core_plugin_manager->all_plugins_ok()
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    Plugin "mod_autoview" is defective or outdated, can not continue, sorry.

    More information about this error

    Debug info: Unsupported $module syntax detected in version.php
    Error code: detectedbrokenplugin
    Stack trace:
    line 612 of /lib/upgradelib.php: plugin_defective_exception thrown
    line 427 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_modules()
    line 1641 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
    line 677 of /admin/index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
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  • Me !
    tir., 17 nov. 2015, 00:31
    Jarosław, change $module to $plugin in version.php and it should install.

    I'm currently working on Moodle 3.0 for all my plugins (some of which are listed under the my clients names, not mine), but the ones I get paid to write come first. Hopefully Autoview for Moodle 3.x will come out before Christmas, but no promises. I've also got MPEG-DASH support in the new version, this needs to be tested properly alongside Moodle 3.0.
  • Mark Davis
    ons., 20 jan. 2016, 03:58
    Hi Tim,

    I am just wondering how difficult it would be to add a target for Autoview presentations of "_blank" instead of the current "_top"? It would be great if that could be an option (checkbox) in the configuration of each Autoview. In the interim (if you decided to implement this), is there a "quick fix" I could implement in the source code to achieve this? Thanks.
  • Mark Davis
    tir., 14 jun. 2016, 23:34
    Hi Tim,

    I believe this is a bug and it has been around a while, I just keep forgetting to mention it. When backing up and restoring a course which contains Autoview videos in it, the config .avx files in the moodledata directory do not get copied. We have to manually log in to the server and copy the moodledata directory over to the new course to make the Autoview videos work again. Is this something that can be fixed?
  • Me !
    ons., 15 jun. 2016, 19:24
    Hi Mark,

    That's actually an issue with the Repository file manager not AutoView and it's not easy to fix. The Moodle backup system doesn't really provide any way to backup files which aren't held in the standard Moodle file store, so backing up the .avx files and any other files through the standard Moodle interface can't be done without either a major patch to Moodle or by writing an alternative backup system as a plugin. The recommended procedure is to use the zip function in the repository file manager, or do as you are doing and zip moodledata.

    Unfortunately the design of AutoView (which was allows for use outside of Moodle) is fundamentally incompatible with the Moodle 2.x file API's so I can't rewrite the plugin to work without the repository file manager. If I was writing this again now, I would probably write an independent AutoView server and tie it in with LTI, but that wasn't an option back in the early 2000's when AutoView was first written.

    I tried very hard to persuade Moodle HQ to continue to provide a "real" moodle manageable file store area as part of Moodle core when 2.x came out, but my arguments fell on deaf ears, so I had to do my best using plugins.
  • Mark Davis
    man., 8 aug. 2016, 21:59
    Thanks Tim. We definitely appreciate your hard work on these plugins, making Autoview work within Moodle!
  • Ger Tielemans
    man., 12 des. 2016, 23:20
    Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; QTQuality has a deprecated constructor in ....32\server\moodle\mod\autoview\avphplib\refmovie.inc.php
  • Rheman Pessek
    tir., 7 aug. 2018, 22:42
    Hi everyone.

    Great Plugin. I haven't seen the version for moodle 3.1.

    So I want to know if this plugin works under moodle 3.1 LTS.

    Best regard.
  • Me !
    tor., 16 aug. 2018, 20:29
    Hi Rheman, the 3.1 compatible version was on GitHub but never made it here, so I've uploaded it, along with the more recent major re-write which is for 3.5 and up. The chances are the latest version for 3.5 will work on earlier releases, but it's not been tested, since we've gone straight from 3.1 to 3.5.
  • Dinis Medeiros
    fre., 17 aug. 2018, 19:51
    I'm PT-PT translator. I can't see this plugin in AMOS.
    I can find 3.1 but not 3.5.
    Can you verify this? TIA
    Keep the GOOD work
  • Me !
    fre., 17 aug. 2018, 20:13
    The plugin code validated when I last tested it but for some reason the 3.5 version threw an AMOS error at me when I uploaded it, I'm not sure why at the moment. It's on my list to investigate, but can't promise exactly when. I am doing a major site upgrade next week that uses AutoView so might be able to slip it in then, if not it'll be a few weeks due to other commitments.
  • shahab bohlooli
    ons., 28 okt. 2020, 13:35
    Hi, I wanted to install auto view, but I faced an error :
    "The Course File Area repository has not been installed. This is required to use AutoView in Moodle 2.x with internal file storage"

    comment: I installed Course File Area repository plugin twice succefully but still I have this error.
    Moodle version:3.9
    OS: ubuntu 20.04
    PHP version:7.4


    I really want to see how this plugin works, your help is greatly appreciated.
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