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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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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. I got a chance to closely analyze many of these specific issues and in all the cases it turned out to be server configuration problems. All these has been due to server (web server or LMS) configuration issues.

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Workaround for video streaming issues in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Problem: Videos do not get streamed in Adobe Captivate projects. Reason: The URIs of the videos are specified incorrectly. Solution: The format of the URI depends on how the FLV or F4V file is nested within the ‘App’ folder on the server. The first two sections in this article explain the URI formats when the [.].

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Video Delivery Types in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

One of the most important factors to think about while using Videos in learning courses is how the video will be delivered to the learner. Captivate supports the following types of Video Delivery : Progressive download, RTMP Streaming, Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS). Video Hosting. RTMP Streaming.

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Now videos can be part of all elearning content!

Adobe Captivate

One of my favorite features this time is the new Video import and synch capability in Captivate. Now you can add video content to your elearning just as easily as you were adding audio previously. This would be especially useful for talking head videos, that are describing or anchoring the content on the slide.

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Video Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real

Tony Karrer

I was recently asked what video format to use and particularly about the differences between the Flash Video Format (FLV) and Windows Media - WMV Format. In The Rise of Flash Video - Tom Green tells us: This is not to say QuickTime and Windows Media are dead technologies. Flash files are very consistent in their playback.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

Test on actual environment – environment is the combination of hosting server and end user’s machine. You do need to include all file types as some servers don’t allow the request for all media types by default and this has to be configured manually. Make sure to include the all file types [ like *.swf, No support for AS 3.0

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