Playing Captivate videos as wmv files

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July 19, 2011
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Our IT dept wants our Captivate projects converted to WMV files to be viewed with Windows Media Player. However, when converted to .wmv files the buttons and any interactivity built into the Captivate projects will not work. How can we publish these videos so they can be viewed by the Windows Media Player?

Any ideas or suggestions?

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Captiv8r

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Only the SWF format will allow the interactivity. WMV is just a movie and will play as you have seen.

Cheers... Rick

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Thank you, Rick, for your timely response. I will pass this information along to our IT dept.

Any ideas of how .swf can be viewed at individual machines accessed through a media server running on a Sharepoint platform?

RodWard

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You can try using one of the output options that creates a video file and then using a media encoding application to convert that file to one that Windows Media Player can consume. Each version of Captivate has slightly different options for export to video formats, and each format has its own set of pros and cons.

So you'll need to try all the formats available from your particular version of Captivate (you didn't mention what it was) and then see which encoding option/s work.

One thing you need to be aware of is that your users will need to have far better bandwidth to run courses as video files than they would need for the same course as an HTM/SWF output. Video files are typically about 10 times the size of SWF.

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