When searching for audio within CourseMedia™, users now have the option to verify the record at three separate points of failure. The tool is integrated within the metadata panel of the audio clip editor and will let the user know if the record fails on the following three points:
- Metadata Record Retrieval
- Flash Media Server Connection Via Directory
- File Streamability
If any of these points fail, a message is shown to the user at that point. Most of the records which fail in these ways are caused by bad filenames or misnamed files and directories.
Check out the video below for a walkthrough:
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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is an awesome service for presenting and collaborating at a distance. Unfortunately, not a lot of people at the University of Denver have a Connect Pro license and have to look elsewhere for such services. In preparing for the H1N1 Influenza virus, faculty actually have a lot of options beyond setting up a standard Blackboard course. Both Google and Adobe offer some great free tools to help users collaborate across great distances.
One of the services provided by Adobe is called ConnectNow, which actually shares a lot of functionality with Connect Pro. You won’t be able to conduct an entire class with the service (as it only supports a limited number of connection per room) but you can share your desktop, take control of a student machine to work through a problem, and it includes rich whiteboarding and chat tools.
Couple this with Buzzword, Presentations, and the tools from Google, and you can easily conduct your course at a distance in the event of student or faculty illness. I’m fortunate enough to have a Connect Pro account and conduct all my office hours through that service.
Today’s faculty have a set of really robust, free tools at our disposal and should take full advantage of whichever ones complement our specific courses.
Version 1.2.5 of the Media Viewer addresses the following issues:
- #127 Images not smoothed when scaled in Media Viewer (see image above)
- #134 LoaderContext.checkPolicyFile issue with MediaViewer
- #140 Load Indicator not going away if skipping ahead quickly
The CTL has released a new AIR application called LiveStreamer available now via the Adobe AIR Marketplace.
This started as a simple mechanism to display a live RTMP stream from Flash Media Server to a client machine and related projection system in anticipation of an upcoming live, campus-only event. So… not for broadcast over the web- just sending a live stream from one physical location to another.
While developing the application, I came across the need to test an RTMP stream and it was so simple using this app that I decided to expand it. In the current version (0.9.0), it will accept RTMP and HTTP streams- just type in the URL and you can easily test it in order to verify that it is correct before trying to publish anything on a website or whatnot. You can also use it as a fullscreen projection or display mechanism as was originally intended.
If you have some FLVs or MP4s or whatnot on your local machine- you can just drag those into the app to watch them. I’m thinking about adding some playback controls and other options a bit later.
Application for display of video streams via RTMP, HTTP, or local filesystem. Just drag in a file or enter a stream address and away we go!
At the University of Denver, we have built a good number of AIR applications at this point. Some are internal data management tools, others are full, complex, private applications such as the VPS Projection system, and then we have small utility apps like this which others may also find some use for. These we make available to others free of charge as part of our community outreach.
There was an error introduced in 1.1.0 which did not allow consistent database communication from an embedded instance. The new 1.1.1 build corrects this error.
If you are experiencing this particular problem- be sure to refresh the browser viewport or clear your cache to allow version 1.1.1 to load.
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