[IAEP] Video player for wiki.sugarlabs.org

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a few days ago someone come to Sugar complaining that Vimeo had taken
> down a Sugar educational video due to alleged copyright violations.
>
> So I added support for playing videos directly inside Mediawiki:
>
>  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Bernie/Html5VideoTest
>
> See the page source for a usage hint. As you can see from the demos, for
> best compatibility, videos need to be encoded in either WebM or Ogg
> Theora.
>
> MPEG-4 (x264) requires a flash player, and I couldn't get it work
> neither with Gnash, nor with Adobe's Flash 11. So try to stay away from
> it if you can. I also haven't tested compatibility with IE9 and Safari,
> please update the page if you try them.
>
> Currently, there's no way to upload video files directly within
> Mediawiki. You'll have to host the files somewhere else, such as in your
> public_html directory.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --
> Bernie Innocenti
> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
>
>
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Thanks Bernie. I don't know how many members of the community have a
public_html directory, but in the interim, I believe that Dailymotion
remains a option for hosting for us as well.

regards.

-walter

-- 
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org