Videofile

Hi Jonas, thank you for the great videofile player! It's exactly what we were looking for to help make our courses responsive with video.
I do have one enhancement request or if this is something you'd rather not implement, perhaps some advice on how to implement it ourselves.
If the video is responsive, it ends up being huge on wide screens, and the width/height are ignored for purposes of setting the size of the window. What we would like to see or do, is if the video is responsive, then to have an option to use width/height as max-width and max-height on the videofile div, in the video-js class. This will put an upper-bound on the video on large screens and also allow it to nicely size down and be still responsive on smaller screens.
This is the line of outputted html I think where the max-width and max-height tags would go: (had to remove the <>'s as it looks like the comment box accepts html!
div id="videofile-2" class="video-js vjs-default-skin vjs-paused vjs-controls-enabled vjs-user-inactive" style="width: 959px; height: 539.4375px;"
If I manually modify this line in Chrome and add max-width and max-height, it seems to work.
It looks like this line is generated in render.php, in the get_video_element_html function on line 177. I'm just not sure how to modify the html_writer::start_tag statement to add the style="max-width:$width; max-height = $height;" statements.

How do i make a video with a URL?

It's a smooth video player, but is there a way to include it into a lesson instead of as a stand-alone activity?

I have same request as Balázs. Instead of the drag and drop folder upload UI, or along side it. I simply want a text field where I can enter the URL of my video. I do not want dozens / hundreds of video files in my moodlefiles folder, possibly gigabytes, being served from my web server. I host my video files elsewhere (AWS/S3) where capacity is much higher and throughput is high. I just need to add URL such as: http://domainame/filename where the file extension determines type.

@Jonas
As far as I can see, this activity is the only way to get a responsive video player within Moodle out-of-the-box. This is really great! Thanks for this very useful plugin.
I wonder, if it's possible to use the responsive player in a normal html-area of any activity independently from a own resource.

Thanks Shutiri! That worked perfectly.
Regards,
Matt

@Matt Long: just go to mod >> videofile >> pix, and save your logo as "moodle-logo.png", replacing the current one.
Alternatively, you can save a different file, your_logo.png, and modify line 164 of mod >> videofile >> renderer.php accordingly.
Best,
Shutiri

Great plugin! We've been looking for something like this for awhile.
One question--I would like to change the default poster image to our school logo. That way, if a teacher doesn't add their own, it will use our branding (the moodle logo would confuse some of our teachers/students). Is that possible?
Also, I noticed that if a user has docked blocks on the left of the page, the videoplayer seems to lose the right margin when it loads (that is, it is no longer centered in the content section of the page). This may just be a problem with the theme we're using; just letting you know in case it was happening for others.
Thanks again!
Matt

Thanks Jonas! I know I'm going to have to change this at the css level, I'm just really struggling with "where". I tried making changes to the styles.css and video-js.css files, but my changes dont seem to affect anything. Just trying to figure out where the black background with white text is coming from...

A Y, there's no way to do it from within Moodle but I think you should be able to by changing the css of the .vjs-captions class.

Does anyone know how to change the default fonts for the captions?

Dear Jonas,
Great work on the plugin. I'm in the same situation as Aleksander in that I want to prevent the user from downloading the videos. Being able to right-click and choose 'save' is a problem for me. If it's possible to disable this in the next release somehow it would be much appreciated.

Hi Balázs! Sorry for not replying sooner. It's not possible at the moment. I have to think about this a while, I can definitely see the use but don't know how to implement it with a good user interface.
Best regards, Jonas

Hi!
Great module! Thanks!
Does anyone know a way to disable the draganddrop upload in moodle?
I'd like to insert only a video URL to this resource type to play in video.js.
Is it possible or should i find an other solution?

I changeg the theme to "standard", now I could install "videofile" and it worked, then I changed the theme to "essential" and it worked fine without any error. I don't know what the problem exactly was but now it works.