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A mainstream audio and video player service that puts accessibility front and centre. We put the emphasis on ease of use for end-users and authors. From the The Open University.

https://embed.open.ac.uk

Built on MediaElement.js, CodeIgniter and oEmbed.

See the open source project.

Requirements

Linux, Mac OS X or Windows
PHP 7.2+ (cURL, SimpleXML)
Apache 2.2+ (mod_rewrite)

Releases

Version 1.6.3

Patched (some) CodeIgniter files for compatibility with PHP 8

Version 1.3.2

Release 22 April 2016 /

Replicated fixes on mobile version of site
Tidied up tab navigation

Version 1.3.1

Release 31 March 2016 /

Automated javascript build process using grunt
Switched from closure compiler to uglify for javascript build, issue with display of full screen and caption icons appears to be fixed.

Version 1.3

Release 11 March 2016 / :

Fixed issue with poster image stretching
Fixed issues with display of poster image for audio files
Added https:// to poster images
Added extra code for testing purposes in /test_area

v1.2-1-gb9f13ac

Release 17 Aug/ Live: approx. 25 Aug 2015

Fix 'disallowed key characters' bug Bug:22

v1.1-26-g731260f

Release: 5 Jan/ Live: 14 Jan 2015

Fix jQuery XSS vulnerability [Bug:8]

v1.1-25-g535a7b7

Release: 17 Dec/ Live: 18 Dec 2014

Fix PHP notice/ warning [Bug:7]
Fix PHP error_reporting()/ display_errors use [Bug:7]

v1.1-21-gba86785

Release: 5 Dec/ Live: 11 Dec 2014

Fix to add "no-proxy" support to Http library - intranet-restricted [Bug:3]
Fix cookies for intranet-restricted transcripts [Bug:4]
Add analytics events to OpenLearn (legacy) player [Bug:5]

v1.1-12-g1f75bbf

Release: 21 Nov/ Live: approx. 26 Nov 2014

Fix OU Media Player for intranet-restricted content [Bug:1]

v1.1-9-g17ff3ce

Release: ~2 Jun/ Live: 12 Jun 2014

Hide the title panel/ banner for OUICE/OU-branded pages iet-it-bugs: 1486 LTS-redmine: 10744,
Fix: "In IE11 (Win8) we just see a black rectangle.." iet-it-bugs: 1487 (CSS)
Fix: broken transcript links,
Fix: Remove "View on Podcast site" link for private media,
Fix: Correctly handle secure HTTPS media URLs,
Fix: add support for "http://media-podcast.open.ac.uk" URLs,
Fix: remove "role=application" from Player embeds (accessibility),
Fix: time-display widget overlaps progress-bar - prevents dragging (CSS),
Add Google Analytics to OpenLearn player variant, add Player logo to about page.

v1.0-rc.1-32-gd251c7a

Release: ~10 Dec/ Live: 12 Dec 2013

Fix: full screen button, only top half works - FLV [Ltsredmine: #8526][lts#:8526]
Fix: "no-Flash" message intermittently appearing (OpenLearn) [#9072]
Fix: I'm seeing subtitles twice - Chrome only [#9071]
Fix: full screen consistency, inc. follow up [Ltsredmine: #7911][lts#:7911]
Fix: Player controls alignment CSS [iet-it-bugs: #1485][#:1485]

v1.0-rc.1-0-gd0bb0cb

v0.95-beta-80-gd0bb0cb Release: 25 July/ Live: approx. 30 July 2013

Player fixes following LTS-tech-testing:

List - todo - [iet-it-bugs: #1477][#:1477]
Video offset bug [Ltsredmine: #6932][lts#:6932]
Playing on tablet device [Ltsredmine: #7182][lts#:7182]
..

v0.95-beta-39-g584d305

Release: 31 May/ Live: approx. 21 June 2013

v0.95-beta-30-gcfe9c2d

Release: 20 May/ Live: approx. 23 May 2013

OU Player features:

The Player is now available under HTTPS/ SSL - initially for VLE use.

OU Player bug fixes:

Javascript/ configuration fix for video size - Internet Explorers/ MSIEs 7/ 9 [Bug #1474][#:1474]
Config. fix to Ender/jeesh Javascript URL under HTTPS/ SSL [Bug #1473]
Fix for no-svg class in oup-light CSS stylesheet [Bug #1476]
Follow-up PHP fix for analytics [Bug #1464]

v0.95-beta-2-gb72490b

Release: 31 January/ Live: approx. 7 February 2013

OU Player features:

Finished support for "rgb" colour parameter - VLE player [Bug #1324][#:1324]; fix 2013-01-07,
Use new HTML transcript from OU Podcast site [Bug #1460][#:1460]; fix 2013-01-22; ref #1409],

OU Player bug fixes:

Fixed video size issue - Chrome etc. - ender/jeesh/VLE/ no captions [Bug #1456][#:1456]; fix 2013-01-11; reported by Ray.Guo,
Tooltip styling/ Z-index bug [Bug #1458]
Podcast player "private" flag bug [Bug #1448; fix 2013-01-10; reported by Ben.Hawkridge]
Firefox VLE player bug - "Sorry, your browser appears.." [Bug #1457][#:1457]; fix 2013-01-25; reported by Ray.Guo; [Bug #1447][#:1447]; reported by Ben.Hawkridge,
"rgb" parameter error handling too draconian [Bug #1453; fix 2013-01-07]
Fixed access control - ignore private/ published flags, set cookie [Bug #1463][#:1463]; fix 2013-01-30; reported by Ben.Hawkridge,

OU Embed:

OU Embed demo/preview form [Bug #1455][#:1455]
Bibsonomy provider, ScraperWiki external provider [Bug #1461; #1420]
Embedding from Wordpress.com blogs - Noembed [Cloudworks #310]
Fileviewer provider, including CompendiumLD SVG [Bug #1420]
iSpot external provider [Bug #1408; added 2012-10-11]

v0.9-beta-123-gfc4eaf3

Release: 10 December/ Live: 13 December 2012

Upgrade to latest MediaElement.js 2.10.0 [Bug #1368][#:1368]; commit 2012-12-10; 2.9.5-32-g98263df,
Upgrade to CodeIgniter 2.1.3 [Bug #1410; commit 2012-10-31]
Support "maxwidth" - plus experimental "pcwidth" (100% / percent width) [Bug #1415]
New placeholder/locked image for private podcasts [Bug #1401; added 2012-09-25; by Peter Devine]

OU Player bug fixes (September-December 2012):

Chrome fails MP4 using mediaelement/ maybe-to-no [Bug #1416][#:1416]; fix 2012-12-10,
PHP-Apache hangs on IT-EUD-Acct/ LOCK_EX/ CodeIgniter logging [Bug #1446; fix 2012-12-10]
MSIE 9 compatibility view style/CSS width [Bug #1417]
Mobile fix - width=100%/ jQuery/Ender [Bug #1414]
Documentation [Bug #1413]
MY_Input workaround for Drupal-oembed consumers [Bug #1378; fixed 2012-11-06]
MediaElement.js error/ event handling [Bug #1412; fixed 2012-10-29]
IT deployment fixes [Bug #1406][#:1406]; #1400; September,

Installation

In brief, the steps for the installation of OU Media Player (non IT-EUD hosting) and OU-Embed are:

Get the code, eg. $ git clone https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player.git
Copy: application/config/embed_config.dist.php to application/config/embed_config.php
Set $config['debug'],
Set $config['podcast_feed_url_pattern'],
Check $config['http_proxy'],
Create a data directory with logs/ and oupodcast/ sub-directories, and set permissions (eg. $ chown -R apache:apache )
Set the data directory $config['data_dir'] in application/config/embed_config.php,
Set $config['log_path'] in application/config/config.php

Details and notes:

Installation guide: extended readme on Google

Ignore files

When importing to AllChange for IT-EUD hosting, please ensure that these files and directories are ignored/ deleted:

.git/*/*       -- ALL sub-directories/ files
.gitignore
_data/         -- To discuss(*)
_data/logs/*.php
_data/oupodcast/*.*
application/logs/*.php

(*) We need to either ignore the whole _data/ directory, or most of its contents, including logs/*.php and oupodcast/*. Then re-create - see install.

Include files

When importing to AllChange, please ensure that these files and directories are included/ implemented:

_data/			-- See [ignore](#ignore)
application/*/*	-- ALL sub-directories/ files.. except for [ignored files](#ignore)
application/config/config.php		-- Including.. config.php
application/config/embed_config.php	-- Including.. embed_config.php
docs/*			-- ALL files
system/*/*		-- ALL sub-directories/ files
.htaccess
.sams
index.php
license-ci.txt
README.md
robots.txt
version.json

Credits

Author: Nick Freear / Institute of Educational Technology, and many others.

For full credits and licenses see docs/CREDITS.txt

iet-ou / open-media-player

Maintainers

Details

README

Requirements

Releases

Version 1.6.3

Version 1.3.2

Version 1.3.1

Version 1.3

v1.2-1-gb9f13ac

v1.1-26-g731260f

v1.1-25-g535a7b7

v1.1-21-gba86785

v1.1-12-g1f75bbf

v1.1-9-g17ff3ce

v1.0-rc.1-32-gd251c7a

v1.0-rc.1-0-gd0bb0cb

Player fixes following LTS-tech-testing:

v0.95-beta-39-g584d305

v0.95-beta-30-gcfe9c2d

OU Player features:

OU Player bug fixes:

v0.95-beta-2-gb72490b

OU Player features:

OU Player bug fixes:

OU Embed:

v0.9-beta-123-gfc4eaf3

OU Player bug fixes (September-December 2012):

Links

Installation

Ignore files

Include files

Credits