I am currently testing out the features of Storyline and I am impressed by the product thus far.
I was playing around the with screen recording tool (without audio) to see how this feature worked. I published the screen recording and did NOT select the option for the articulate mobile player. Therefore, when testing on the iPad, the HTML5 version plays.
However, my screen recording does not play on the iPad device. Is this a limitation of HTML5? That it does not support video? Or is there another output I can save the screen recording as to have it play in HTML5?
Just send me a note with the name of the file so I can take a look at it.
Mobile Safari (the browser on the iPad) has some goofy limitations around playing separate audio and video tracks at the same time, but I'll take a look and let you know if that is the case.
I just uploaded my story.html file to the link. It is just named story.html. If you need me to rename, let me know. Thats so much for the quick response.
Thanks Michelle. This is really odd, and I'm not sure why it isn't playing, I have other capture videos that are set up almost identically that do play. I'll dig into it and let you know what I find out.
Not sure how I missed this, but it looks like the video on slide 1 (which I assume is the one you are talking about) is setup to only play the video when clicked. To change this, select the movie, click the Options tab in the ribbon and set the "Play Video" option to: "Automatically".
Unfortunately that did not solve my issue of getting the screen capture to play on the iPad. The seek bar appears to be progressing, however, the screen is black.
However, this did fix the "try" version of the screen recording, just not the play version.
Yes, slide 1, the screen recording of just building something simple in SL. I am doing some testing so I have the file uploaded to my LMS, do you think that is what is affecting it?
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I had some things to finish up.
But yes, when uploaded to tempshare, the video did play on the iPad device. Do you know why it would play when loaded to there and not when uploaded to our LMS?
Well, it could be any number of things, but I would follow up with your LMS provider and let them know what you are seeing. On our AO servers we were seeing a similar issue during the Storyline beta where AO (because of how we were doing routing and security) the MIME type on the server wasn't correctly identifying MP4s as MP4s, and Mobile Safari won't play back the MP4s if the mime type is set improperly. We also saw an issue where the MP4s were having their ranged stripped from the header, and Mobile Safari also won't play back MP4s if they don't have any range information...
Any which way though, I would try to bring it up with your LMS provider and see if there is anything they can do. I would send them:
1. A link to the course working on tempshare
2. A link to the course not working on their servers
3. A link to this thread so they can get the background
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Hi Michelle,
Any chance you can upload your .STORY file so I can take a look at it? You can upload it here:
http://files.articulatetest.com/upload
Just send me a note with the name of the file so I can take a look at it.
Mobile Safari (the browser on the iPad) has some goofy limitations around playing separate audio and video tracks at the same time, but I'll take a look and let you know if that is the case.
-Dave
Dave -
I just uploaded my story.html file to the link. It is just named story.html. If you need me to rename, let me know. Thats so much for the quick response.
Hey Michelle,
Actually would you mind uploading your source .story file? (The one you open in Storyline). That is the one I'll need.
-Dave
My mistake Dave - sorry about that. I have uploaded my .story file and it is named screen recording.story
Thanks Michelle. This is really odd, and I'm not sure why it isn't playing, I have other capture videos that are set up almost identically that do play. I'll dig into it and let you know what I find out.
-Dave
Hey Michelle,
Not sure how I missed this, but it looks like the video on slide 1 (which I assume is the one you are talking about) is setup to only play the video when clicked. To change this, select the movie, click the Options tab in the ribbon and set the "Play Video" option to: "Automatically".
Does that correct the problem for you?
-Dave
Dave -
Unfortunately that did not solve my issue of getting the screen capture to play on the iPad. The seek bar appears to be progressing, however, the screen is black.
However, this did fix the "try" version of the screen recording, just not the play version.
Hmm, odd, it worked for me. You are talking about slide 1 right?
Mind if I post a public link to your course here so you can try out my published output?
Yes, slide 1, the screen recording of just building something simple in SL. I am doing some testing so I have the file uploaded to my LMS, do you think that is what is affecting it?
Could be...
Can you try the following:
1. Publish to LMS
2. Select zip from the Publish Success dialog
3. Upload it to http://tempshare.articulate.com
4. View it from there on your iPad
We had seen something similar to this on some other servers, and would be curious to see if it works fine from tempshare.
-Dave
Dave -
Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I had some things to finish up.
But yes, when uploaded to tempshare, the video did play on the iPad device. Do you know why it would play when loaded to there and not when uploaded to our LMS?
Hey Michelle,
Well, it could be any number of things, but I would follow up with your LMS provider and let them know what you are seeing. On our AO servers we were seeing a similar issue during the Storyline beta where AO (because of how we were doing routing and security) the MIME type on the server wasn't correctly identifying MP4s as MP4s, and Mobile Safari won't play back the MP4s if the mime type is set improperly. We also saw an issue where the MP4s were having their ranged stripped from the header, and Mobile Safari also won't play back MP4s if they don't have any range information...
Any which way though, I would try to bring it up with your LMS provider and see if there is anything they can do. I would send them:
1. A link to the course working on tempshare
2. A link to the course not working on their servers
3. A link to this thread so they can get the background
-Dave
Thank you for your help Dave. I will ask the LMS provider.
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