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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Streaming – accessing videos hosted on the streaming server. Embedded - Importing and placing videos on Flash timeline. Flash player 8 and later have option of letting user view Flash content in true full screen. eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4? Playing back videos.

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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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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A container is the file that contains your video, audio streams, and any closed caption files as well. 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. Containers (file extensions). filename.mp4).

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #1

Upside Learning

Flash Player 10.1 Recently Adobe has released the public beta of Flash Player 10.1 Here is a short video of Kevin Lynch [CTO of Adobe] demonstrating the various Flash Player 10.1 We hope you find something that interests and influences you. Description. on Adobe Labs. under Open Screen Project.

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

You could use any of the many authoring tools, such as Authorware, but you needed an appropriate player. With the advent of Flash, many authoring tools started creating output that could be played by the Flash player, which meant you didn’t need special software to use the courses (if your IT org would support you having it).

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Mobile Flash?

AMVONET

Jobs complained that Flash was a buggy, insecure battery hog that wasn’t designed for touch devices like the iPhone and – thanks to the advent of new, more open technologies – had outlived its usefulness. But the reality of mobile Flash was much different than its promise. But the times have passed Flash by.

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Some FAQs about Adobe’s announcements yesterday

Steve Howard

Adobe announced to increase its efforts on HTML5, use of the Flash Player for applications (packaged with AIR) and specific desktop browsing use cases including premium video and console-quality gaming. As a result, Adobe will no longer develop Flash Player for mobile web browsers. What is it that Adobe is announcing?