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[Aaron Wells <1397131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another thing that's worth considering, is that the video player block
is a block plugin. If an institution really needs to support Flash video
(because their IT department has locked them to IE8) they could
commission a port of the Mahara 1.10 Flowplayer video block to Mahara
15.04, and use that instead.

On a multi-tenanted site you could even have both blocks installed and
use the local_get_allowed_blocktypes() hook function to show one block
to some users and the other block to other users.

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Title:
  Replace Flowplayer with an HTML5 video player

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  All the browers that Mahara supports, now can handle HTML 5 video:
  http://caniuse.com/#feat=video

  So, I think the time is right for us to replace Flowplayer-Flash with
  an HTML5 video player.

  One obvious option is the Flowplayer-HTML5 verison (which has the
  added benefit of supporting Flash as a fallback). But I'd like to see
  if there are any alternatives out there, because Flowplayer's handling
  of their Flash plugin has not shown that they are particularly
  interested in keeping the open-source version of their product up to
  date. So if we could find a product with a more active open-source
  community behind it, that would be tops.

  Or do we even need a separate library for HTML5 video playing? Could
  we just drop the video in with some tags around it?

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