Multimedia
Using plugins like PluginMediaPlayer or PluginFlash, tiki can play audio and video files within wiki pages, trackers and also in articles. File Gallery feature is used to upload and manage multimedia files.
Formats
The bigger list of formats supported is shown in PluginMediaPlayer
The following formats are supported by PluginFlash:
- Mp3: Widely used MPEG 3 format for sound files.
- flv: Proprietary Flash video format by Adobe.
- Flash: Proprietary animation format.
History
[+]- Multimedia support for Tiki began with File Gallery and image gallery. The support for multimedia audio and video became available in plugins circa Tiki2.
- In Tiki versions 2-4 multimedia support was limited to plugins PluginYoutube PluginGoogleVideo PluginFlash and PluginMediaPlayer
- As of Tiki4, Image galleries were phased out in favor of a combined File Gallery that supports all the media types.
- In Tiki5 integration with the video editing and sharing platform Kaltura was added.
- In Tiki6 PluginMediaPlayer was re-written to support more formats.
It uses the Multiplayer flash applet
http://ignu.ungi.com/tiki-index.php?page=multiplayer
- Resizable applet
- Limited to playing 60 sec or 2 mn of a mp3 or FLV file
- No Flash server required, as the files are loaded from the specified url
Full doc in French:
http://fr.tiki.org/multimedia