The OERs from videolectures.net lack information about the video's duration.
As a user
When I see an OER card
In order to know how long the video is
I want to see the number of hours and minutes
Super-quick fix
[ ] get the information from the HTML5 video player. This turned out to be a terrible idea because it only affects the small subset of videos that a user clicks on. Besides, it sucks having to click and wait in order to find out the duration for each video.
Slightly better fix
[x] inject the duration into X5GON search results on the fly, using ffprobe on the server
NB: This is far from ideal because it slows down the search UX considerably when searching for X for the first time (subsequent searches for the same term are unaffected, as the results from ffprobe are stored in the db).
Better fix
[ ] run a script to inject the duration into all the OERs we have already stored
sahanbull
commented
4 years ago
Problem
The OERs from videolectures.net lack information about the video's duration.
As a user When I see an OER card In order to know how long the video is I want to see the number of hours and minutes
Super-quick fix
Slightly better fix
NB: This is far from ideal because it slows down the search UX considerably when searching for X for the first time (subsequent searches for the same term are unaffected, as the results from ffprobe are stored in the db).
Better fix
Ideal fix