iet-ou / open-media-player
A mainstream audio and video player service that puts accessibility front and centre. Built on MediaElement.js and oEmbed. From The Open University.
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Requires
- php: >=5.3.3
- ext-curl: *
- ext-xml: *
- iet-ou/open-media-player-core: ^2.0
- johndyer/mediaelement: 2.18.1
- nfreear/composer-suggest: ^1.1
- regex-guard/regex-guard: ~1.0
Requires (Dev)
- jakub-onderka/php-parallel-lint: ^0.9.2
- squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^2.5
Suggests
- iet-ou/open-oembed-providers: ^2.0; oEmbed providers - YouTube, Google Docs, Prezi ...
- johndyer/mediaelement: 2.20.1; MEJS edge/ MEJS 2.20.1
- tuupola/slim-basic-auth: ^2.0; Slim Basic Auth
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README
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.
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 inoup-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,
Links
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
$config['http_proxy']
, - Create a data directory with
logs/
andoupodcast/
sub-directories, and set permissions (eg.$ 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
Open Media Player: Copyright © 2010-2021 The Open University (IET).
- Author: Nick Freear / Institute of Educational Technology, and many others.
For full credits and licenses see docs/CREDITS.txt