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The Media Player plugin activity module for Moodle is a UI tool to deploy the JW FLV Player 5.0 in Moodle.

It does the following:

• Deploys FLV, MOV, MP4, F4V and other web video formats and supports H.264 AVC
• Supports a range of plugins and manages their settings to make using the Media Player module as easy as possible
• Supports playlists and other media types such as MP3, JPG, GIF, PNG and SWF
• Can play video directly from YouTube.com, Ted.com and any sites that have the necessary crossdomain.xml policy file in place
• Can be used with media servers and a variety of types of media streaming
• Comes with a wide selection of UI skins to change the visual appearance of the player
• Basic video playback on operating systems where Flash Player is not supported, i.e. iOS - iPhone, iPad, iPod.

Media Player Demos

You can see the Media Player installed in Moodle and in action here: http://matbury.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=9#section-9 (Login as a guest)

It supports the following JW FLV Player plugins (click on the links to see JW FLV Player documentation):

• Audiodescription External audio track synchronised with video
• Captions SMIL TimedText and SubRip captions which are more flexible and easier to read that embedded subtitles
• HD Users can switch between high-definition and normal video streams
• Infobox Convenient way to display credits and info about video
• Livestream No need to keep refreshing the web page while you're waiting for a live broadcast, polls the live server every few seconds
• Logobox Put your logo on your videos
• Metaviewer View video stream metadata (debugging and info tool)
• Searchbar Search for videos, YouTube.com by default, can be used with custom search scripts
• Snapshot Take a still frame "snapshot" of a video and save it in the course files directory

Screen Shot

Media Player Activity Module with Searchbar plugin

Users can enter search words and the results appear as a playlist. With this plugin, users can search any specified site without leaving their Moodle course. With the Snapshot plugin activated they can also save still frames to the Moodle course files directory.

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