Test video offset #1

Test playing a fragment of a video

The following is a test of offsetting into the video at 26 seconds into the video (and playing until 78 seconds) by adding "#26,78" at the end of the URL:

The format of the time specification is described in W3C specification "Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic)" - https://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/ Links to an external site.. In this example, both the starting and ending time values have been given in seconds. Note that if you use an hour:minute:second or minute:second format, the minute and second values must have two digits.

Test with the embedded player

Test playing the whole video:

Note that with the embedded version, the user can select to display the captions by clicking on "CC".

Test playing from slide 2 of video:

Adding the #t=26,78" to the end of the URL does not work with the embedded player.

Another test too play from slide 2 of the video using the embedded play by adding a startTime parameter to the URL:

Note: if you add the startTime parameter to the URL it works, but does not display the video at this point as the starting frame of the video (unlike the first case above).

Yet another test of playing from slide 2 of the video - this time with both startTime and endTime:

However, as noted above adding the startTime parameter to the URL works, but it does not display this as the starting frame of the video until it starts to play. The endTime parameter causes the playout to end at the specified time!

Take away

The next question is the best way of including the video in a wikipage. Some alternatives seem to be adding a small embedded version of the player, adding a link to another page that has the embedded version (this has the advantage of not taking up space on the wikipage), adding a link with a reference to a specific named anchor on another page that has the embedded version along with other virtual "clips" (perhaps putting all of the "clips" for a module on one page), … .