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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). Streaming – accessing videos hosted on the streaming server.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

Occasionally, you may need to use a different container depending on where you plan to host your video. 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.

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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. Test on actual environment – environment is the combination of hosting server and end user’s machine. Related posts: Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1–

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

It’s a platform that helps you to deliver and track training, including hosting courses, organizing them and reporting on learners’ success taking the courses. Flash allows development of animated content that can be played using a browser. Approximately 95% of the PCs in the world have flash player installed.