Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 1.9.5
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Labels:None
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Environment:Linux Server, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2, Postgres DB
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Database:Any
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Difficulty:Easy
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Affected Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE
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Fixed Branches:MOODLE_19_STABLE, MOODLE_20_STABLE
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Rank:35276
Description
Currently, any Ogg/Theora video that is uploaded to Moodle has an unset mime type when downloaded. A simple one-line patch sets the correct mime type on the Ogg/Theora video (files that end in .ogv). This allows those videos to automatically play when viewed by a browser like Firefox 3.5+ that supports Open Video. Furthermore, without this correct mime type, Open Video isn't even possible for those (like me) that are willing to hand code the HTML in, for instance, a web page resource to use the <video> tag and .ogv videos.
After applying the above patch, custom HTML inserted into a new resource -> web page, like:
<video height="480" width="640" tabindex="0" poster="/file.php/1351/MyVideo.jpg" controls="true">
<source src="/file.php/1351/MyVideo.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
<source src="/file.php/1351/MyVideo.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
</video>
Works just fine in Firefox 3.5+, without the patch, Firefox fails to view the video in its built in player.
Issue Links
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MDL-13907
The Moodle multimedia plugin does not support Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora files, although these can be played in QuickTime
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- Open
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Activity
Hi Rossiani,
could you take a look to this, adding the most common mime types and testing them under Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 ?
TIA and ciao 
Thanks Paul for the patch.
In addition to Paul's patch, I added .ogg mime type to 1.9 filelib.php (attach patch)
In 1.9, these two file extensions can be embedded by using object tag in custom html page.
Eloy, I'm not unable to embed the flac file on custom html page. Therefore, I didn't add the flac mime type to the filelib.
Still running some tests with embedding these video files in 2.0. I will post the patch for 2.0 as soon as I get it to works.
patch for 2.0
Added new plugins to support ogv and ogg files.
Commit patch to 2.0 distribution.
Added ogg and ogv plugins to 1.9 stable.
All files are checked-in.
This is an issue for me too. I'm trying to write a resource module for displaying video files using HTML 5 and Cortado.
By the way, the Xiphi wiki has a run-down of all the standard media mime-types (http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions), some of them are rather obscure, but it would be good to at least support .ogg, .ogv, .oga, .ogx, and .flac.