Replace flash-based video player

Bug #626624 reported by François Marier
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Mahara
Fix Released
High
François Marier
1.2
Fix Released
High
François Marier

Bug Description

As reported on the Debian tracker, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591200, we do not ship the source for the flash player we use in the internalmedia blocktype.

That video player comes from Moodle and is normally proprietary (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/), but Moodle got permission to distribute a version of it under the GPL:

  http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=blob;f=filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.README.txt;hb=cvshead

Eventually, we won't need flash to play audio and video in browsers (thanks to HTML5) but for now we need it and so I propose to replace our old player with a modern one that's becoming quite popular out there:

  http://flowplayer.org/

It's in active development, is unambiguously under the GPL, comes with corresponding source and claims to support iPads and iPods for example.

Revision history for this message
Dan Poltawski (dan-poltawski) wrote : Re: [Bug 626624] [NEW] Replace flash-based video player

On 30 Aug 2010, at 08:32, François Marier <email address hidden> wrote:

> It's in active development, is unambiguously under the GPL, comes with
> corresponding source and claims to support iPads and iPods for example.

Surely it needs server side transcoding support to achieve that?

Dan

Changed in mahara:
milestone: none → 1.3.0
assignee: nobody → François Marier (fmarier)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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