Hi Adam,

I do believe ExtJs has been replaced by jQuery in v3. Nowadays, there's also 
the HTML5 video tag that should work for most browsers. I think that adding a 
JS library like this: http://www.videojs.com/ will also help you in catering to 
older browsers.

So, I think you should just be able to create a custom report that loads some 
extra javascript files and uses the video tag to point at your resource. Just 
how easy or hard that would be is a question best answered from somebody at 
Farallon. But I do believe they're currently working very hard at technical 
stuff, so it might take them a while to get back to you.

Cheers,
Koen
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Adam Cox [mr.adam...@gmail.com]
Verzonden: donderdag 19 februari 2015 23:53
Aan: archesproject@googlegroups.com
Onderwerp: [Arches] Re: Dealing with Audio and Visual entries in the database

Ok, been looking around a bit, and per the roadmap it seems like the adoption 
of jQuery and Bootstrap in Arches v3 would indicate a replacement of ExtJS.  I 
have found simple examples of videos embedded in bootstrap modals, so I feel 
that this whole concept is possible... Still, any feedback or suggestions would 
be welcome.

Adam

On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 11:50:40 AM UTC-6, Adam Cox wrote:
Hello all, I'm doing some planning would be interested for any input on this 
issue.

One thing that the Cane River National Heritage Area is very interested in is 
using Arches as a way to store and catalogue their collection of oral histories 
and other interviews/recordings from around this area.  One way I had 
envisioned this was uploading videos and audio files as Information Resources, 
similar to a pdf or photo.  I figured that they would at the very least be 
downloadable by anyone viewing the database, and most browsers seem to play 
.mp3 files without needing to download them so if someone found an audio file 
in the database, the report for that entry would just have a link to the file 
itself.

I've been looking at ExtJS and I haven't found there to be a good up-to-date 
extension that would support an embedded video in the report for a resource.  
So, I was thinking maybe all of the videos could be uploaded to YouTube 
instead, and then the Arches resource report for that video would have an 
embedded YouTube video (html iframe element).  I think the workflow could be 
along these lines

1. upload the video to YouTube and copy the video ID from the YouTube watch 
link (e.g. vAOVRkSCWmg)
2. Create new Arches resource for the video, and store the video ID somewhere 
within the resource graph
3. construct the form for video Information Resources pull the video ID and 
construct the YouTube embed link.
4. Optionally, you could go back to the YouTube video and add description with 
some way of linking to the Arches resource report (maybe)

This could be done with the .mp3 files as well, I suppose, but that would 
require some conversion and prior editing.

There are some good upsides to this, like not having to store and use your own 
server for people streaming video.  Also, people could find more videos on 
YouTube and then be referred to the Arches database that way.

Anyway, any feedback on this strategy would be much appreciated.  I haven't 
gotten my feet wet with ExtJS yet, so there may be some issues that would not 
make this possible...

Thanks,
Adam

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