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iPad compatibility #28

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This is a feature request rather than a bug report. Recent releases of the 
Longtail player on which this module is based offer compatibility with iPads. A 
recent update of the Wordpress plugin for Longtail added that feature. Since 
iPads are increasingly popular with students we would ask you to implement the 
most recent code from  Longtail so your excellent tool would offer iPad 
compatibility.

Many thanks for your efforts and contributions to the Moodle community.

John Jackson
Director of Educational Technology 
Univ of Virginia School of Medicine

Original issue reported on code.google.com by red.gar...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2011 at 1:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi John,

Thanks for your interest in this project and your request. I've looked into 
providing support for HTML5 as a fall-back for operating systems that don't 
support Flash. The JW Player uses the same fall-back code as is recommended by 
Adobe and a number of well-known developers (using the <video> tag).

It's quite easy to include the fall-back code but all this does is embed the 
browser's native video support to play the video file. The extensive, powerful 
features of the JW Player and its plugins are immediately lost. I guess that 
plain video is better than no video at all and Apple iOS users will have to 
make do with that.

I'll add the code to the next update.

All the best,

Matt

Original comment by matbury on 3 Feb 2011 at 12:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Matt,

Many thanks for your plan to add this feature. I would agree with your 
assessment. The HTML5 video tag is a bit of a mess now, with different 
companies backing different solutions, but there are enough iPad users out 
there that it makes sense to provide a simple solution that works.

Thanks again,

John Jackson

Original comment by red.gar...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 2:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hi again John,

I've just updated the Media Player module and included HTML5 fall-back. You can 
read more about it on my blog here: 
http://matbury.com/wordpress/2011/02/04/media-player-module-now-supports-html5-v
ideo/

The new version is available on this site now.

Matt

Original comment by matbury on 4 Feb 2011 at 2:29