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===Take5: MediawikiPlayer embedding=== | ===Take5: MediawikiPlayer embedding=== | ||
First an MPEG 4 file: | First an MPEG 4 file: |
Revision as of 20:49, 31 March 2012
- A place to play.
- A place to spawn new pages.
- A place to test what works.
Setting up for spam filters....
See whether these exist....
Setting up templates for submissions and linkings
- Template:Artifact
- Template:Event
- Template:Manifesto
- Template:Group
- ...and creating Template:Ephemera transclusion page....
...and Ephemera02
Creating Collection of Tim Blickhan
- Band pages
- Create a Neoteric Ensemble page...
- Create a Potato Engineers page...
- In memoriam
- Create Barbara Bullock
- Create Harry Castle
- Create Jim Slenger
Video experiments
Can we use HTML5 as hinted at elsewhere?
Take 1: HTML5 tagging
<video>
<source type="video/mp4" src="Relache_039_Dance.mp4" /> <source type="video/ogg" src="Relache_039_Dance.ogv" />
</video> Hmmm. Need to install some stuff....
Take 1.5: More HTML5
Maybe it is the syntax? <video poster="Relache_039.jpg" controls> <source src='Relache_039_Dance.webm' type='video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"'/> <source src=Relache_039_Dance.ogv' type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'/> <source src='Relache_039_Dance.mp4' type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4D401E, mp4a.40.2"'/> <p>Or try this link [http://dekalborama.com/mediawiki/extensions/HTML5video/videos/Relache_039_Dance.flv a link] if the video doesn't play.</p> </video>
Take 2: mwEmbed/Kaltura
It seems this has been displaced by commercial elements.
Take 3: HTML5video extension
<HTML5video type="HTML5" width="320" height="240" autoplay="false" loop="false">Relache_039_Dance</HTML5video>
Uploaded three versions of the video:
- Relache_039_Dance.mp4
- Relache_039_Dance.ogv (Huge!)
- Relache_039_Dance.webm
Hopeful, but challenged. Results so far:
- Android 2.3.6 = Yes! Plays in its own window.
- Chrome 17.0 = Yes! On PC running Vista Enterprise
- Firefox 11.0 = Yes! Only after pushing MIME types as below.
- Safari 5.1.4 = Yes! On both Mac OS X Snow Leopard and PC Vista
- IE 7 = Nope, not even after the MIME adjustment. Not even a box....
Thanks to Video for Everybody for a few hints. Adding MIME types to .htaccess, for example.... Now, what to do about IE7 since I cannot get Flash fallback to work?
First uploaded even more formats to see if IE can be fooled:
- Relache_039_Dance.flv
- Relache_039_Dance.avi (Also huge!)
Drat!
Take4: jwplayer standalone....
<script type="text/javascript" src="jwplayer/jwplayer.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jwplayer("mediaplayer").setup({ flashplayer: "jwplayer/player.swf", file: "jwplayer/video.mp4", image: "jwplayer/preview.jpg" }); </script>
Oh, well....
Take5: MediawikiPlayer embedding
First an MPEG 4 file:
<mediaplayer width='320' height='240' autostart='false'>File:Relache_039_Dance.mp4</mediaplayer>
Then Flash:
<mediaplayer width='320' height='240' autostart='false'>File:Relache_039_Dance.flv</mediaplayer>
Last resort
Well, there's always a link!