Colleagues
At UWIC we now have offline content working. Our media specialist, Adrian
Clark is now looking at what is the best format, maximum length,
compression, players etc to use.
So far limited testing shows (loading from within Bb as offline content)
a 1.22.4 min realvideo clip (1530KB) fires realplayer instantly, and takes
about 6 sec to start playing
a 2.24.8 min realsound clip (1154kb) fires realplayer instantly and takes
about 7 sec to start playing
a 4.52.00 min avivideo clip (100,078KB) looks at the CD for about 1 min 25
secs before opening Realplayer, then takes another 10 secs before playing.
Interestingly if you fire this directly from Windows Explorer it takes about
4 secs only before playing, so is Bb changing how it loads somehow.
To get offline working, Bb support sent us a fix and a missing gif file. And
Ron Arthur called me this morning before we got it working.
We'll come back to the list when we have more news.
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Carol Cooper
eLearning Support Officer /Swyddoges Gynhaliaeth eDysgu
Learning & Teaching Support Unit, University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB UK
Uned Gynhaliaeth Dysgu Ac Addysgu, Athrofa Prifysgol Cymru, Caerdydd,
Campws Llandaf, Rhodfa'r Gorllewinol, Caerdydd CF5 2YB DU
Tel/Ffon: +44(0)29 2041 6264 | Fax/Ffacs: +44(0)29 2041 6257
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