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[Richard Mansfield <626624@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Replace flash-based video player
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626624
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Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Fix Released
Status in Mahara 1.2 series: Fix Released

Bug description:
As reported on the Debian tracker, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591200, we do not ship the source for the flash player we use in the internalmedia blocktype.

That video player comes from Moodle and is normally proprietary (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/), but Moodle got permission to distribute a version of it under the GPL:

  http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=blob;f=filter/mediaplugin/flvplayer.README.txt;hb=cvshead

Eventually, we won't need flash to play audio and video in browsers (thanks to HTML5) but for now we need it and so I propose to replace our old player with a modern one that's becoming quite popular out there:

  http://flowplayer.org/

It's in active development, is unambiguously under the GPL, comes with corresponding source and claims to support iPads and iPods for example.