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I tested it – and it works! Thanks very muchThis would be great for our school as I’m often presented with mp4s -however we are reliant on our broadband suppliers who host our moodle and therefore cannot add updates ourselves – it would be great to hope that in the next version of Moodle it comes as standard.

Sounds good. maybe you should add this to the Moodle Tracker?

Cool! Glad you could scratch that itch!

I’d love to just include your changes and the new plugin in Moodle but we can’t, because the player uses this license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ which forbids commercial use and is thus incompatible with Moodle’s GPL license which does not prevent people from using Moodle for commercial purposes.

More on http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-18658

Thanks Martin,
I wondered if that might be the case…

To that end I have split it off into a seperate plugin which I can then distribute seperately… Am I allowed to add it to the plugins directory if it is incompatible with GPL?

Hmmm- I got the filter installed, and I am putting the videos in the moodledata directory, the video player comes up but it says it cannot find the video or access denied.

Am I putting the videos in the wrong directory (moddledata is blocked for direct access from web) or it is a folder permissions issue?
/home/content/s/h/r/shrfradmin/html/moodledata/1
[shrfradmin@p3nlhssl020 1]$ ls -al
total 135080
drwxr-x— 2 shrfradmin inetuser 4096 Aug 13 10:08 .
drwxr-x— 11 shrfradmin inetuser 4096 Aug 13 13:19 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 shrfradmin inetuser 137990820 Jul 10 18:03 PAIN_MANAGEMENT_PREVIEW.mp4
-rw-r–r– 1 shrfradmin inetuser 35199 Jul 10 01:03 pain_management.JPG

OK, Got it working fine now – Bad src line.

When I was using this player before I installed it as a filter, I could specify an image (jpg) that would be displayed as a video cover, Can this still be done now that I have it installed as a filter?

darcy

Sorry Darcy, this version of the filter is basically just an adaptation of the current Media Filter to allow for MP4′s and as the previous version didn’t support ‘covers’ this one doesn’t either… If I have time to add it in I’ll let you know, but it is unlikely to happen in the near future.

Thanks for this. In Moodle 1.9.6 the mediaplugin filter will handle mp4s (code without GUI setting form already in the weeklies). BUT, it uses quicktime.
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-18658
Makes sense since quicktime can play *any* mp4, but I do prefer to stick to just flash.

I made 2 mods to your filter.
1) Changed pattern so it only embeds if you have ?fp in the link GET string — making it an opt-in for those who know what kind of mp4 is acceptable.
2) Added 19 pixels to height:
$height = (empty($link[4]) ? 360 : $link[4]) + 19; // add controller height

Your dimensions shrank the video slightly to add the controller – resulting in pillarbox bars and slightly degraded quality.

Is anyone else having issues with the video not playing? I get audio streaming with this filter, but no video.

I am having an issue with the videos streaming. The audio works fine, but the video is a black screen. I have no idea what could be happening, and was hoping for a little help if possible

Thanks,
Scott

Does the mp4filter work in moodle 1.9.7 ?
I have tried,but it don’t work, thanks

Hello, I installed your media player plugin on my Moodle site. It works great.

However, because you are using the JW Player, I kept looking for another solution. I found this Open Source flv-flash-fullscreen-video-player at:

http://code.google.com/p/flv-flash-fullscreen-video-player/

I was able to make it work using an iFrame on a Moodle Lesson page. It plays mp4 files very well.

I wonder if you could use this Open Source player instead of the JW Player in your media player Moodle plugin? This might be just what the Moodle community needs.

Thanks,
Clarence

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Your filter worked first time. Thank you!

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The multi-media narrow in moodle uses JW Audience as the gamer for flv’s but the most latest edition of this gamer now facilitates enjoying MP4?s

Moodle is a great technology designed to help teachers as well as students to have better interaction as well as to reach across the digital divide to enhance teaching and learning in any classroom in a simple and easy way.