Talk:Mv Embed

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Drupal?

I was wondering if you know of anyone who is planning on porting this functionality to Drupal.

I don't know of anyone working on that functionality Mdale 18:54, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Summer of Code 2008 changes description draft

The changes made during the Summer of Code 2008 development of mv_embed have introduced the following modifications:

Usage Improvements

  • mv_embed can handle streams of type other than ogg (most of the new support is focused on flash video) 
 <video style="width:400px" >
   <source type="video/ogg" src="myClip.ogg"/>
   <source type="video/x-flv" src="myClip.flv"/>
 </video>
  • The visual layout has been made slightly more robust to sizing, allowing sizes to be specified in percentages: 
 <video style="width:100%; height:100%" src="http://www.archive.org/download/mv_senate_proceeding_05-15-08/senate_proceeding_05-15-08.flv"></video>
  • The visual design has been modified to use a new skin composed of a self-contained .css style sheet and images for visual elements. The implementation is close to where it could allow a different skin of substantially different characteristics to be substituted.

PHP based Flash Media Server

  • To accompany the support of flash video a php based flv segment media server has been written.
  • Based off of FLV4PHP
  • Supports arbitrary clients that support flv playback. (like using VLC to play back flv)
  • Tested with Sorenson h.263 flash baseline codec but in theory would work with other flash codecs in the flv container.
  • sample usage to pull 20 to 40 seconds from myCLip.flv 
 <video src="mvFlvServer.php/myClip.flv?t=0:0:20/0:0:40" >

Implementation Modifications

  • plugin functionality has been moved to new mediaPlayer and mediaPlayers classes to allow a more streamlined interaction between plugins and various mime_types.
  • source functionality has been moved to new mediaSource (modeling a single source) and mediaElement (modeling a <video> tag., i.e. a collection of sources) classes.
  • detection of which plugin players support which mime types is done both through a hard-coded list, and (for Mozilla) by using navigator.mimeTypes
  • player preference support has been improved to account for multiple mime-types
  • implementation of the HTML interface has been revised to accommodate the new skin
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