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Popcorn.js
by Rob Mausser - Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 6:37 PM
 

Has any implementation been created for the excellent Popcorn.JS? 

 

I see so much potential for this in E-Learning

http://popcornjs.org/

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Re: Popcorn.js
by Greg Pell - Thursday, 30 July 2015, 4:52 AM
 

Yeah, that would be a very handy component for Adapt :)

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Re: Popcorn.js
by Simon Ray - Thursday, 30 July 2015, 5:30 AM
 

Agreed! That looks excellent!

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Re: Popcorn.js
by Matt Leathes - Thursday, 30 July 2015, 9:26 AM
 

Have looked at this a few times, it is really nice but our ability to use it is limited by the fact that you can't use it with video on iPhones due to the way those devices always play video in a separate player - and we don't get that many courses where the client doesn't care about iPhone support (and doesn't want IE8 support either and also has enough budget to pay for something like this...)

It does work fine on iPhones with audio though, be interesting to use to sync the appearance of elements along with audio.

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Re: Popcorn.js
by Rob Mausser - Wednesday, 5 August 2015, 3:15 PM
 

I have used this with iphones outside of Adapt.

What we did was create a user agent that checked for iphone device, and then if so it took our text in the box beside the video and overlaid it as captions on the html5. 

 

Iphone allows captions through that "English QuickTime 608 CC track" standard. So we just had that generate rather than text in a box beside. 

For other elements like graphics, obviously this is not possible, you just have to build the project so that anything outside the video is supplemental and not necessary in itself.