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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. However, often we find videos not being used optimally. Here are a few technical aspects to keep in mind when working with videos. Choosing source video. Encoding videos to FLV.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

Last week, while justifying Apple’s refusal to allow Flash player on iPhone/iPad, Steve Jobs wrote– “ New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too) ”. This Wikipedia article provides more details about HTML5 video support. in Flash Based eLearning Development?

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

An eLearning player is a building block for more conventional [one with back and next for navigation buttons] eLearning courses. What’s an eLearning player? This post is based on our experience with development of Flash based eLearning players over the years. Core logic for navigation features like next, back, menu etc.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

While there are a plethora of video file types, which consist of codecs and containers, choosing the right one doesn’t have to be complicated — but it certainly can be. You may have heard the phrase video codec when referring to video files. In order to compress a video, your file must also have a corresponding codec.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

There are several futuristic videos about how it will work available at [link]. The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Here is a latest video released by Adobe demonstrating Flash enabled “full” web experience on HP Slate device. What’s Adobe’s contribution?

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Video files not embedding and loading properly on swf publish

Adobe Captivate

I am attempting to embed short (10 sec) video files to a captivate 2019 project and publish it as an swf file. When viewing the swf file, the videos appear to be attempting to load (i get loader icon indications) but the video never loads. I have checked to ensure that my flash player is up-to-date in my browser (IE) also.

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Connection Error in Slide Video

Adobe Captivate

There has been some threads in user forum about the connection error which learners get in Slide Video. Some background Info: When you insert video into Captivate as Slide Video, it by default is configured to be progressive download. You can verify whether your server setting is OK by using any FLV player like this.

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