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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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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent. Also, Flash or Silverlight video/audio supports secure media streaming; there is no clear counterpart for this in HTML5. The use of Video in eLearning is only going to increase, so this is going to be a big issue for developers going forward.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. The higher the bit rate, the less compression, which results in higher quality overall. A container is the file that contains your video, audio streams, and any closed caption files as well. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Codecs encode or compress streams of data for storage, playback and video editing on a variety of platforms. This codec produces an MP4 , which typically delivers the best quality, with smallest file size. FLV (Flash Video Format). Takeaway: Use the MP4 file type to keep quality and reduce file size. And many more!

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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. Better "Streaming" In general, the Flash video format is very good at playing as it streams down additional content. The only way around this is to use a Flash Media Server.

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Host Your Corporate Training Videos on Your LMS – Why & How

CommLab India

Provide consistent delivery and quality training to all employees. Consider these factors while hosting training videos on an LMS : file size of the videos & compatibility, hosting charges, streaming server, and confidentiality of information. Wmv, avi, mp4, mpg, mov, asf, flv, and 3gpare some common video formats.

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Great FREE Software Downloads

The eLearning Coach

CamStudio can record all the screen actions on your computer, as well as an audio narrative, and create AVI files which can converted to a streaming Flash (SWF) format. FLV Player. If your a multimedia maven, then you need to play FLV files. You can download the free FLV player at CNET. Now that could save time.