Non youtube video player?

[Ildar Khakimov]

Hello

Using edx-dl edx-dl https://github.com/shk3/edx-downloader a user can extract the link to the Youtube video, for paid courses it poses a problem.

Can we use a video hosting service other than youtube? (but the one where we have narration running to the side)

Thank you

[Carlos Andrés Rocha]

Hi Ildar,

In addition to youtube, the current video player in the edx-platform supports any HTML5 <video> compatible source, along with the transcription.

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Carlos 

[yvain DEMOLLIERE]

Hi Idar, i personnaly host my videos on amazone web services S3 (free up to 5GO if i'm correct). 

Then i embed the video in the HTML tag: 

<video width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src="http://awsxxxxxxx.myvideos.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
It works great and at least the video is not 'public' as in Youtube.. 

[Chris Dodge]

While that (putting in HTML module) will work, we recommend people use the 'video module' that is in Studio. There are fields in the settings which allow one to source videos from places like S3.

[yvain DEMOLLIERE]

Thanks for the Chris, 

works great on Safari and Chrome, but issue with FF (mac). No suitable format.

[yvain DEMOLLIERE]

Le mardi 22 octobre 2013 21:21:45 UTC+2, yvain DEMOLLIERE a écrit :

Thanks for the Chris, 

works great on Safari and Chrome, but issue with FF (mac). No suitable format. 

ERROR: No playable video sources found!

[Peter Pinch]

Mac Firefox does not support mp4 video in HTML5. 

Mozilla currently recommends using both a webm source and an mp4 source:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Supported_media_formats?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Media_formats_supported_by_the_audio_and_video_elements

I haven't had a chance to try this yet with edX, but I suspect it may address the "no playable video source" issue you are seeing in Mac FF. 

- Peter

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[Yiannis Demetrakopoulos]

Hi,
Did you ever find an acceptable solotion ?

Thanks