Advanced FLV Filter

Moodle, Plugins | August 27, 2008 by moodleman | 0 Comments

Advanced FLV Filter

For the first time in quite a long while I have finally done a little bit of Moodle development gain. I love working with Moodle code and find it quite easy to manipulate. If you have a little coding skills under your belt I strongly recommend you head to the moodleDocs and start getting your hands dirty. It is surprisingly easy and very rewarding.

Today I started (and finished) creating a new advanced FLV filter to replace the one in the moodle core. While the standard one works very well and does an admirable job, I found myself wanting to more easily control elements across my site such as player size, a placeholder graphic, auto playing of movies and the ability to hide the control bar. So today I made a new player that does all of that and it is controlled through the filter admin interface

Installation Instructions

  • Download the new filter from the modules and plugins database on moodle.org
  • Extract the FLVplayer folder from the archive
  • Upload the FLVplayer folder to your moodle’s “filter” directory
  • THATS IT! your all installed and ready to go. You will now see FLVplayer as a new filter in admin.

Important Note

Please make sure if you are going to use this filter that you disable the existing FLV filter built into moodle. Details are in the accompanying video.

If there are any other additional functions you think that should be added to this filter please make sure to leave them in the comments.

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No Responses to “Advanced FLV Filter”

  1. Bob Price
    January 24, 2009 at 12:40 am #

    Trying to get this to work.

    1. Moodle 1.9.2
    2. Multimedia filter on, flv filter unticked
    3. flvplayer installed and visable
    4. Video create from an AVI using Adobe CS3

    Any thoughts as this filter looks so good

    Regards

    Bob

    Reply
  2. Frank
    February 20, 2009 at 6:39 am #

    Moodleman!

    I’m glad I found this filter and I am very happy you developed this. It works great!

    I do have one question. We embed FLVs in our lesson pages. We do this by typing in some text, selecting it, and then creating it into a link. Before we save it, we remove the text between the tags. This allows the video to play within the lesson – no pop up windows.

    However, when we do this method, we get the words (Flash Video) right above the movie clip. Do you know where this is coming from?

    Thanks!

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  3. Frank
    February 20, 2009 at 7:15 am #

    Moodleman

    Nevermind – just changed the class properties in the style sheet.

    Reply
    • David
      August 28, 2009 at 8:19 am #

      Hi Frank. Can you walk me through the removal process. Where does this style sheet live and what can I tell my system admin to facilitate this change.
      Thanks!

      Reply
  4. Abbas
    February 25, 2009 at 4:40 pm #

    Hi,
    I have moodle 1.8.6, I installed this filter, Even though it appears in filters list, after disabling all multimedia filters on moodle and setting this filter, it still takes the default multimedia filter of moodle. Is there any fix?

    Thanks
    Abbas

    Reply
  5. Matt Bury
    February 26, 2009 at 9:46 pm #

    Hi Julian, I’ve just found your blog.

    I’ve been working on an FLV Player module for Moodle which is now available for download on code.google.com (open source): http://code.google.com/p/moodle-flv-player/ It’s an activity module rather than a filter and it offers a lot of scope for consuming web services, media servers and the like.

    Your filter and my activity module development efforts could complement each other pretty well. You can get in touch with me from my website or on Google Code. It’d be great to hear from you.

    All the best,

    Matt Bury

    Reply
  6. Tom
    June 10, 2009 at 9:08 am #

    Hello,

    We are having the same trouble (as above) in activating the Advanced FLV Filter within Moodle (v1.9).

    We have installed the filter and appears in filters list, after disabling the standard multimedia FLV filters within Moodle and setting this filter, it still takes the default multimedia filter of moodle.

    Any updates to the filter does not make any changes to existing Flash videos – is there anything we can do to make this work (or debug further)?

    Thanks
    Tom

    Reply
  7. Dana
    June 22, 2009 at 10:29 am #

    Hi Julian,
    Thanks for the flv filter. It’s installed and working on 1.8.4 (soon to be upgraded). I especially like that the full screen is working.

    However, I cannot change the size of an individual flv now, as I could with the regular filter. Is there something that I am missing? I’m trying to show 16:9 flvs.

    Thanks,
    Dana

    Reply
  8. Leon
    July 8, 2009 at 6:45 pm #

    Hoi Julian,

    Can you rtmp:// from streaming server with this filter? I did as follows:

    Made a link like this: rtmp://streamingserver.xx.com/formoodle/test.flv

    Thanks,

    Leon

    Reply

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