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.

• 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,

Links

• http://embed.open.ac.uk | http://mediaplayer.open.ac.uk
• Bugs/ Issues: IET-OU/open-media-player

Installation

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

1. Get the code, eg. $ git clone https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player.git
2. Copy: application/config/embed_config.dist.php to application/config/embed_config.php
3. Set $config['debug'],
4. Set $config['podcast_feed_url_pattern'],
5. Check $config['http_proxy'],
6. Create a data directory with logs/ and oupodcast/ sub-directories, and set permissions (eg. $ chown -R apache:apache )
7. Set the data directory $config['data_dir'] in application/config/embed_config.php,
8. 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