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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). This table shows compatible publish and playback versions for these codecs.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

Upside Learning

The new version (IE 9) which is expected to be released sometime in 2011will support HTML5. On the other hand, Flash supports FLV/FV4 formats and those are not browser dependent. Internet Explorer ( IE 6, 7 and 8 ) the most widely used web browsers has no support for HTML5. in Flash Based eLearning Development?

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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. Opera has released a HTML 5 version (Opera mobile) for Windows Mobile. What’s Adobe’s contribution? So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content. Recently, even Blackberry is adopting a Webkit based browser.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

The considerations mentioned here would, however be applicable to any other (development technologies) eLearning player too. Choose the right technology – before you start developing an eLearning player it’s important to decide on the development tool and technology. Make sure to include the all file types [ like *.swf,

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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?

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

eLearning : Any learning content that can be delivered using technology. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. FLV : Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player.

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CMS: An Alternative to a LMS for those who seek Portals or Communities

eLearning 24-7

ECMSs will often include strategies and technologies as part of their components. Xinco – Web-Service based Information and Document Management System (DMS) for files, text, URLs and contacts, featuring ACLs, version control, full text search and an FTP-like client. flv), HTML5, docs, pdf, etc. Not that well known.

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