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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). Mov is preferred over others due to its lossless properties.

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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) ”. On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent.

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

Though some Flash platforms tools like the Flex SDK are freely available from Adobe, for animation and design you still need to depend on Adobe’s Creative Suite of tools – which is not free. The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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Video files not embedding and loading properly on swf publish

Adobe Captivate

I have tried multiple file types (mp4 and flv), both input variations (event and synchronized) and multiple flash output versions (10.x I have checked to ensure that my flash player is up-to-date in my browser (IE) also. x), all to no avail. Any ideas as to what may be causing this issue?

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

Choose the right technology – before you start developing an eLearning player it’s important to decide on the development tool and technology. flv [Flash video format] is not supported in some servers by default and it needs to be configured. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

FLV, F4V, and SWF are flash video formats designed for Flash Player, but they’re commonly used to stream video on YouTube. Flash is not supported by iOS devices. AVI (Audio Video Interleave) works with nearly every web browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines.

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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. Why has this happened? Why has this happened?