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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Don’t double compress videos – use uncompressed or lossless formats when compressing to FLV format. Encoding videos to FLV. Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). Streaming – accessing videos hosted on the streaming server.

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Developing An eLearning Player?

Upside Learning

Test on actual environment – environment is the combination of hosting server and end user’s machine. You do need to include all file types as some servers don’t allow the request for all media types by default and this has to be configured manually. Make sure to include the all file types [ like *.swf,

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Adobe Captivate: Adding Videos to eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      You can add several types of video into a Captivate project, including AVI, MOV, and Flash Video (FLV or F4V). If you have a web server, you can upload the videos to the server in advance and simply copy/paste the URL to the video into the URL field. You can take the poll  here.

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Connection Error in Slide Video

Adobe Captivate

I got a chance to closely analyze many of these specific issues and in all the cases it turned out to be server configuration problems. All you need to do is publish the project and upload the entire publish folder to the server – Some cases just a web server (IIS, Apache etc) and other cases to an LMS.

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Workaround for video streaming issues in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Solution: The format of the URI depends on how the FLV or F4V file is nested within the ‘App’ folder on the server. Problem: Videos do not get streamed in Adobe Captivate projects. Reason: The URIs of the videos are specified incorrectly. The first two sections in this article explain the URI formats when the [.].

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Video Delivery Types in Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Can be hosted on any Web Server or Flash Media Server (FMS). As you know, Captivate has two different video features : Slide Video and FLV Object (details here ). All you need do is upload the publish folder to the web server of your choice and it should just work. Now the video is delivered from your alternate server.

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Now videos can be part of all elearning content!

Adobe Captivate

Captivate also bundles the Adobe Media Encoder, allowing you to import video in any popular format, and the same is converted into FLV and placed on your slides. Captivate 5 gives you the option to either embed the video in the project, or to stream it from an external Flash streaming server of your choice.

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