From flash file imbedded to using Youtube
Nov 15, 2011
Hi guys
Finally produced our first Articulate study module for massage therapists. I have outputted to CD and also now wanting to output to our Moodle website. I painfully uploaded the zipped mod up and took some time - that's a problem here I suspect. Anyway, we tested and the two flash movies imbedded are too large25Mb and 66Mb for some people so I have decided to upload to Youtube and use a link from presenter to allow students to view from there.
Since I don't want to change, save and re upload the whole module, which files will change so I can simply just overwrite these on the server? Guessing it would be just slidexxx.flv from SWF folder.
Finally, is there any free software that can modify these flash movies to lesser size? Does Adobe Flash (lying dorment on my laptop!) do this?
Dave
5 Replies
in 1.9(and lower) you can replace the file by browsing the moddata folder but you can't do this in 2.x due to the file api change - the only method to update is by repackaging the zip and updating the existing SCORM replacing it with the new zip.
Hi Dan and thanks for the quick reply. I use the Articulate end product as a link to our website and NOT using the SCORM ie the Articulate package is a stand alone and I use Moodle simply as a way to create individual members who have access to products they purchase. Does this make a difference in your response?
Dave
Dan, you disappoint me, do you know how much digging around and changing I do in the scorm files in 1.9, saves me tons of time.
I may now have to be more careful
Phil
yeah - you can get around it a bit by putting your SCORM packages somewhere else - SCORM allows you to link to an external url with a zip or to use a url to link to an imsmanifest.xml file in a directory in the webroot on your server - but this means the files are publicly accessible and not protected by Moodles file permissions etc.
Ideally I'd like to create a new repository type in Moodle that allows relative links etc but there's probably quite a lot of work that needs to go into doing this.
There are a massive number of posts on this in the moodle.org forums - some people hate it, others see the benefits it provides
well - if the package is stored outside Moodle and you aren't using SCORM in Moodle it doesn't apply at all. Try replacing the file as you mentioned and see if it works!
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