we have a SL2 course with embedded videos that our customer wants to be able to run from their intranet (i.e. locally). We have published the course for web but the customer does not want to put the course on a web server. Now everything in the course is working apart from the videos. Is there a way to solve this so the embedded videos will work without storing the course on a web server?
Thanks for your respond Phil. I was thinking if there is a way to work around this security blocking, e.g. to add or change something in the SL code after publishing?
I'm just wondering how your videos are embedded into your course. I publish my courses to a network drive here for my colleagues to preview/approve on their PCs all the time. A web server is not required for videos embedded directly in Storyline. Thanks.
thanks for your comment. I'm aware of the possibility to insert the movie directly on the slide. In this case we wanted to stream from Vimeo or Youtube.
Ashely, yes I should have specified that I publish to my local drive and then copy the folder to a network drive for viewing by colleagues. I've never had any problem in regard to that. I may have even published directly to network drives in the past, by accident.
Marie, I have tried embedding Youtube videos, and you could run into the problem Phil mentioned. I'm not sure why Vimeo wouldn't work though. Maybe I just don't understand the environment into which you are publishing.
Are you publishing for Web or for CD? viewing web published content off a network drive could be a part of the problem. We've also updated some of our documentation in regards to YouTube videos as detailed here.
We have been streaming from Youtube and Vimeo before and it usually works fine. In this case though I understand the problem is that the course is not on a web server (and we have published for web). We will solve it either through embedding the video directly on the slide in Storyline or see if the customer's IT have another solution. Thanks for all your response!
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If they are downloading the course and running it then it is local security blocking it and you may not be able to sort this.
If it is running from a browser from a link from a real intranet then they probably just need to enable MP4 mime type on their servers
Finally if it is running from a network drive again this may need IT to change settings on each machine
Thanks for your respond Phil. I was thinking if there is a way to work around this security blocking, e.g. to add or change something in the SL code after publishing?
No if it is security issue it would need to be fixed on each individual machine
Ok, thanks for the quick response!
Glad that you were able to get some assistance here Marie :)
Marie,
I'm just wondering how your videos are embedded into your course. I publish my courses to a network drive here for my colleagues to preview/approve on their PCs all the time. A web server is not required for videos embedded directly in Storyline. Thanks.
Mike
Hi Mike,
thanks for your comment. I'm aware of the possibility to insert the movie directly on the slide. In this case we wanted to stream from Vimeo or Youtube.
As you are working cross domain it is unlikely to work. May be easier to embed.
If it is inserted from YouTube it maybe you are affected by the YouTube API change.
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Hi Mike,
You'll also want to make sure that you're publishing your courses locally first instead of directly to your network drive, and then ensure that your colleagues are viewing it within the intended environment vs. playing it locally on the PC (unless you've published for CD or another local source).
Ashely, yes I should have specified that I publish to my local drive and then copy the folder to a network drive for viewing by colleagues. I've never had any problem in regard to that. I may have even published directly to network drives in the past, by accident.
Marie, I have tried embedding Youtube videos, and you could run into the problem Phil mentioned. I'm not sure why Vimeo wouldn't work though. Maybe I just don't understand the environment into which you are publishing.
Hi Mike,
Are you publishing for Web or for CD? viewing web published content off a network drive could be a part of the problem. We've also updated some of our documentation in regards to YouTube videos as detailed here.
Ashley, I think you meant to direct that to Marie. She started the thread.
We have been streaming from Youtube and Vimeo before and it usually works fine. In this case though I understand the problem is that the course is not on a web server (and we have published for web). We will solve it either through embedding the video directly on the slide in Storyline or see if the customer's IT have another solution. Thanks for all your response!
Thanks Marie for the update and please let us know if you need anything else.
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