[Moodle] avi in Moodle

[Roland GESTHUIZEN]

The way to reduce the size of raw, uncompressed AVI files to upload into Moodle is to use a compression codec when creating the movie. There are a couple of different ways of doing this and there is no one correct or best codec to use. I have to date tinkered with MOV, MPG, WMV, DivX codecs although the open source FFMPEG project that uses the Theora codec just caught my eye for its adoption of the MPEG4 standard. The player codec needs to be installed on the client computer to run the particular compressed video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_codec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora

Regards Roland

-----Original Message-----
From: "Philip Brown" <BROWN-PH at oxley.vic.edu.au>
To: <moodle at edulists.com.au>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:45:00 +1100
Subject: Re: [Moodle] avi in Moodle

Con is right. You won't need to convert your files to SWF if you have
the associated movie player on the desktop. However if the file is a few
Megs then downloading may be an issue. Try to keep downloads as small as
possible in case students want to view them from home over a slower
connection.

Phil Brown
Oxley College

>>> conz at cyber.com.au 4/11/2005 3:12:52 pm >>>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:09:25PM +1100, Maggie Iaquinto wrote:
> One of our teachers wishes to store a movie in one of our courses
and
> make it available for students to view.
> 
> I've read some messages to the Moodle forums about converting such
> files to flv (flash video) or swf and all.
> 

I would pressume that Moodle can store any form of digital content as
a
file (PDF, DOC, XLS). If so, why not keep the movie in its existing
format?

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