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healthedsamurai
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March 15, 2013
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Streaming from Amazon Cloudront, Youtube, or Vimeo

  • March 15, 2013
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I have created some training that has a lot of videos on many slides, and I want to stream the videos, either from Amazon Cloudfont (I have an account), or from Youtube, or from  Vimeo.  Please note that I don’t wish to Publish to those CDN’s, but I would like to be able to stream from them for the video content on my html5 based captivate projects. 

I have tried configuring some test videos that I have deployed on those CDN’s, and can’t get them to stream in Captivate 6.  

I would think many other users would also be interested in this topic,  if they have video intensive training incorporated into their projects and their videos are not short.

I can't believe that these are not easy to use options in Captivate.  Nobody wants to wait for progressive video to download, and you don't want to burden you own server with such tasks. 

I would think many other users would also be interested in this topic,  if they have video intensive training incorporated into their projects and their videos are not short.

If anybody has a clue, please advise!

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    delasoup
    delasoup
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    August 30, 2016

    Has anyone had success streaming from Amazon CloudFront? I have been told by Captivate support 2 different stories. At first, I was told that this should work (it does in Flash, but not HTML5), and then was told that the videos must be hosted on Adobe Media Server or Adobe Flash Server.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    August 31, 2016

    What version of Captivate are you publishing from?  If it is Cp 9.0.2 then you may need to contact the server administrators and ensure the JSON mimetype is enabled, otherwise your HTML5 content will not work.

    delasoup
    delasoup
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    August 31, 2016

    Using Cp 9.0.2.421.

    application/json MIME type is enabled on the server. Is that it, or something different?

    Also just found out that the CloudFront account has Adobe Flash Server enabled. Could that be why Flash is coming through, but not HTML5?

    Thanks!

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    dave_feasey
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    May 10, 2013

    Similar issue here- lots of video based courseware. Our LMS is charging an arm and a leg for storage so want to get the video outside the Captivate SWFs and load at runtime from Rackspace which uses Akamai CDN. I'm mystified that this isn't possible in Captivate. So I've been trying to find a widget that'll do it. No luck there, and now trying to write my own and finding out why no one has written any particularly useful or working widgets.

    Anyway, please let me know if anyone finds a solution. Thanks,

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    May 10, 2013

    "...now trying to write my own and finding out why no one has written any particularly useful or working widgets."

    I wouldn't say nobody has written any particularly useful widgets.  There are some VERY useful widgets available.  However, I do have to agree with you that it's not easy trying to write widgets for Captivate.  And you have the added pleasure to look forward to that each and every new version or update to Captivate is likely to break your widgets.  That's really fun.

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    Anonymous
    April 2, 2013

    I understand your dilemma.  I am trying to do the same thing. We have a lot of training courses that have many large video files (currently published as SWF's with FLV's).  In my current Captivate 4.0 courses (Published as SWF/HTML to SCORM2004 specs) I am streaming the video's from the video slides using RTMP.  We basically have our FLV's that are sitting on a Flash Streaming Server (Hosted by our LMS Solution Provider). When the slide is viewed you first see the video play panel and after a few seconds of buffering, the video starts to stream.  Since our LMS makes use of the Akamai Network, our users get the efficiency of the Akamai Newtwork in addition to streaming vs downloading large video files.  I have converted one of my online courses into Captivate 6 (From version 4) and the only thing that I changed was the video steaming path names and stream name in the video place-holder to point to some MP4's instead of FLV's.  I then published the content as HTML5.  I then pushed out the content to our LMS and the MP4 Video files to our hosted Flash Streaming Server.  I had even tested the Video Streams using the Adobe Streaming Server Test Tool that our LMS Solution Provider provides me for testing out video streams.  The MP4 Files played just fine from the Flash Streaming Server.  Note: I have the exact same pathes and stream names entered on the video property sheet in Captivate 6.  Now, I must say that I thought I saw a note somewhere on the Adobe Forums that stated that you CANNOT stream MP4 Video via RTMP from an HTML5 Captivate Course. I'm  still trying to locate that comment (post) to verify that statement.  I also posted a new question a few days ago in this same video discussion area, in hopes of getting someone from the Adobe Technical Staff to confirm this fact.  If this is true, then I have no way to currently convert my existing online content to HTML5 and MP4 for delivery to our customers who are in a non-Flash environment.  I guess this is not really an answer, but maybe just a sympathetic ear!  I need some answers as well.  My Question; CAN YOU STREAM MP4 VIDEO USING RTMP from a Capyivate 6 Course published to HTML5?  I wish someone could answer this.

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    healthedsamuraiAuthor
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    April 3, 2013

    Thanks, Jim,

    At least you are getting some streaming to happen, even thought not html5 compliant.  May I ask what LMS you are using that uses Akamai?  And is it very expensive?  If we could stream from Amazon or Vimeo Pro it would be relatively cheap.

    Unforutunately no moderator nor Adobe Tech support person ever responded to or otherwise answered my original question.  Aren't they suppossed to do that?

    Steve in Portland

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    April 3, 2013

    Steve,  you may be misunderstanding what this forum does.  This is a user forum, not Adobe Support.  So technically, although Adobe staffers will sometimes respond here, they're not obligated to.  If you want to force an Adobe support person to talk to you, you'll have to ring their phone support number for your area.  Even then, if they don't have an answer, you won't get an answer...at least not one that satisfies you.

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