Help:Embedded Video: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 08:51, 28 November 2008

In the BCI2000 Wiki, it is possible to have video content embedded into Wiki pages. It makes use of a mediawiki extension by Christopher Ottley.

The embedded FlowPlayer movie player is a Flash applet, and will work on any browser that has a recent Flash player plugin installed.

To add a video to a Wiki page, you need to

Transcode it into FLV format,
Upload it into the Wiki using "Upload file" from the "Toolbox" area to the left,
Add a reference to the movie into your Wiki page.

Transcoding a Video

Videos must be transcoded into FLV Flash Video Format before they can be used for the Wiki.

We provide a Win32 executable of the ffmpeg transcoder program. After downloading, open a command shell, and transcode your video using a shell command as in

p:\ath\to\ffmpeg.exe -i yourvideo.avi -f flv yourvideo.flv

A MacOS X build (PPC) of ffmpeg is also available.

Upload

On the Special:Upload page, enter the name of your video, and a short description. For large files, the upload may fail due to memory restrictions. In that case, please contact an administrator for help.

Syntax

Basically, the syntax for embedding a video is

<flvplayer height="240" width="320">yourvideo.flv</flvplayer>.

Note that your video will look best if the height and width values match the video's original height and width, or an integer fraction of it.

For a detailed description, and further information, see the FLVPlayer plugin's reference page.

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-In the BCI2000 Wiki, it is possible to have video content embedded in Wiki pages.
+In the BCI2000 Wiki, it is possible to have video content embedded into Wiki pages.
+It makes use of a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FLVPlayer mediawiki extension] by Christopher Ottley.
-The embedded player is a little Flash applet, and will work on any browser with a recent Flash player plugin installed.
+The embedded [http://flowplayer.org/ FlowPlayer] movie player is a Flash applet, and will work on any browser that has a recent Flash player plugin installed.
 To add a video to a Wiki page, you need to
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 == Transcoding a Video ==
 Videos must be transcoded into FLV Flash Video Format before they can be used for the Wiki.
-We provide a [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/downloads/ffmpeg_2006_11_28_Win32.zip Win32 executable] of the [http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net ffmpeg] transcoder program.
+We provide a [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/downloads/bin/ffmpeg_2006_11_28_Win32.zip Win32 executable] of the [http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net ffmpeg] transcoder program.
 After downloading, open a command shell, and transcode your video using a shell command as in
   p:\ath\to\ffmpeg.exe -i yourvideo.avi -f flv yourvideo.flv
-A [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/downloads/ffmpeg_2006_11_29_OSX_ppc.gz MacOS X build (PPC)] of ffmpeg is also available.
+A [http://{{SERVERNAME}}/downloads/bin/ffmpeg_2006_11_29_OSX_ppc.gz MacOS X build (PPC)] of ffmpeg is also available.
 == Upload ==
 On the [[Special:Upload]] page, enter the name of your video, and a short description.
 For large files, the upload may fail due to memory restrictions.
-In that case, please contact an administrator for help.
+In that case, please contact an [[administrator]] for help.
 == Syntax ==
 Basically, the syntax for embedding a video is
   <nowiki><flvplayer height="240" width="320">yourvideo.flv</flvplayer></nowiki>.
 Note that your video will look best if the height and width values match the video's original height and width, or an integer fraction of it.
-For a detailed description, and further information, see the FLVPlayer plugin's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLVPlayer reference page].
+For a detailed description, and further information, see the FLVPlayer plugin's [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FLVPlayer reference page].
+[[Category:Editing]] [[Category:Media]] [[Category:Help]]