AutoView Moodle Plugin

All the images should be placed in the same folder, with the files named according to the following scheme :

• 160x120 pixels, filename=imgXXX_1.jpg (used for thumbnails)
• 512x384 pixels, filename=imgXXX_2.jpg
• 640x480 pixels, filename=imgXXX_3.jpg
• 800x600 pixels, filename=imgXXX_4.jpg

eg : If you have a presentation with 3 slides, you should end up with the following files :

img001_1.jpg img001_2.jpg img001_3.jpg img001_4.jpg
img002_1.jpg img002_2.jpg img002_3.jpg img002_4.jpg
img003_1.jpg img003_2.jpg img003_3.jpg img003_4.jpg

Image based slide sources are essential if you want thumbnails to work.

If you have the AutoView document converter service available on your system, then suitable images can be generated automatically from your original slide file in a single step, so manually creating the images as described above is unnecessary.

This is probably because your organisation or network provider is blocking direct access to the Lecture Capture Live server. After a minute or so the Flash plugin will automatically fall back on alternative methods to communicate with the Lecture Capture Live Server.

In order to improve the initial speed of connection, you should contact your network administrator and ask them to allow direct access to RTMP on port 1935 of the website which is hosting the presentation(s) you are trying to watch.

In normal operation AutoView is designed to allow for only one time trigger per slide, so for a pre-recorded presentation the easiest way to repeat a slide is to insert a second copy into the original presentation before uploading.

However, if you are using AutoView Moodle module 2011051101 and/or Lecture Capture Live 1.07 or later, then there is some support for multiple time triggers per slide. This support is primarily intended for use with the Broadcast mode of the Lecture Capture Live plugin, which does allow slides to be displayed more than once. The function is not fully supported through the editing interface. However, you can specify an alternative slide for any given time trigger by adding the slide number after the time index, separated by a semi colon. eg:

15:30.4;7

Would show slide 7 at 15 minutes, 30.4 seconds.

Moodle 2.x handles files in a very different way to Moodle 1.x. Unfortunately the new file handling methods aren't compatible with AutoView for the following reasons:

• The Files API doesn't allow direct access to the underlying files, or modification of these files in situ. (This is essential for live streaming)
• The file picker isn't compatible with the design of the AutoView editor.
• Adding multiple files to a presentation is very time consuming.

For these reasons we have provided the Course Files Area Repository and Repository File Manager Block. These plugins provide the necessary file handling capabilities to allow AutoView to function in Moodle 2.x.