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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

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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?

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Content developers who plan to use HTML5 for delivering video or audio content have to spend more time in encoding the videos to Ogg Theora and to H.264 On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent. To create animations with HTML5 developers have to code animations using JavaScript and CSS.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

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The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content. It would help eLearning developers to focus on developing engaging and quality experience without concerning about technical difficulties.