On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > a few days ago someone come to Sugar complaining that Vimeo had taken > down a Sugar educational video due to alleged copyright violations. > > So I added support for playing videos directly inside Mediawiki: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Bernie/Html5VideoTest > > See the page source for a usage hint. As you can see from the demos, for > best compatibility, videos need to be encoded in either WebM or Ogg > Theora. > > MPEG-4 (x264) requires a flash player, and I couldn't get it work > neither with Gnash, nor with Adobe's Flash 11. So try to stay away from > it if you can. I also haven't tested compatibility with IE9 and Safari, > please update the page if you try them. > > Currently, there's no way to upload video files directly within > Mediawiki. You'll have to host the files somewhere else, such as in your > public_html directory. > > Enjoy, > > -- > Bernie Innocenti > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
Thanks Bernie. I don't know how many members of the community have a public_html directory, but in the interim, I believe that Dailymotion remains a option for hosting for us as well. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
