8.3 Video & Flash

Flash
Flash Video (FLV), as we mentioned on the previous page, is said to play on nearly all the world computers. In fact, the videos that we have used and linked to in this course are all FLV files, as are YouTube videos.

FLV files may be embedded within a ShockWave Flash (SWF) player. The SWF player provides the environment in which the video is played back, determining the size of the video on the page, the play/pause and volume controls. The video we looked at earlier uses Moodle's SWF player to playback the video.

If you have the FLV multimedia filter enabled on your Moodle site, then when ever you link to an FLV file, Moodle will automatically embed this into the SWF player for playback online. If you're not sure whether the filter is enabled on your Moodle, then ask your Moodle administrator to check for you.