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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Encoding videos to FLV. Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). Supported source formats are: asf, avi, dv, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent. These are just a few reasons why HTML5 is not ready for web or eLearning development and technologies like Flash or Silverlight will still prevail until HTML5 (CSS3 and JavaScript) doesn’t overcome its constraints.

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Desire2Learn Mobile FLV - eLearning from Last Week

Tony Karrer

Electronic Papyrus , May 3, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. Browse eLearning Content

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Tags: Learning Technology Adobe AIR Adobe Flash ARM Digital Device eLearning Development eLearning Technology Flash Platform HTML5 mLearning Mobile Mobile Learning Open-Screen project Opera RIA Webkit. What’s Adobe’s contribution?

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Green Screen on a Shoestring: Part III, Production

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FLV) and select the option to encode the alpha layer. Step 5: Encode the processed video by selecting File > Export > Media. This will open a dialog box for setting the encoding parameters. Encode the video content as Flash Video (.FLV) This allows the background color that is removed by the chroma key plug-in to remain transparent.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

The considerations mentioned here would, however be applicable to any other (development technologies) eLearning player too. Choose the right technology – before you start developing an eLearning player it’s important to decide on the development tool and technology. Make sure to include the all file types [ like *.swf,

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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.