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From The Open University. 2.1.0(9y ago)15271[37 issues](https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player/issues)GPL-3.0+PHPPHP >=5.3.3 Since Jul 13Pushed 1y ago6 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/iet-ou/open-media-player)[ Docs](http://iet-ou.github.io/open-media-player/)[ RSS](/packages/iet-ou-open-media-player/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (7)Dependencies (6)Versions (7)Used By (0) Open Media Player ================= [](#open-media-player) A mainstream audio and video player service that puts accessibility front and centre. We put the emphasis on ease of use for end-users and authors. From the [The Open University](http://www.open.ac.uk/). - Built on [MediaElement.js](https://mediaelementjs.com/), CodeIgniter and [oEmbed](https://oembed.com/ "oEmbed API specification"). See the [open source project](https://iet-ou.github.io/open-media-player/). Requirements ------------ [](#requirements) - Linux, Mac OS X or Windows - PHP 7.2+ (cURL, SimpleXML) - Apache 2.2+ (mod\_rewrite) Releases -------- [](#releases) ### Version 1.6.3 [](#version-163) - Patched (some) CodeIgniter files for compatibility with PHP 8 ### Version 1.3.2 [](#version-132) Release 22 April 2016 / - Replicated fixes on mobile version of site - Tidied up tab navigation ### Version 1.3.1 [](#version-131) Release 31 March 2016 / - Automated javascript build process using grunt - Switched from closure compiler to uglify for javascript build, issue with display of full screen and caption icons appears to be fixed. ### Version 1.3 [](#version-13) Release 11 March 2016 / : - Fixed issue with poster image stretching - Fixed issues with display of poster image for audio files - Added https:// to poster images - Added extra code for testing purposes in /test\_area ### v1.2-1-gb9f13ac [](#v12-1-gb9f13ac) Release 17 Aug/ Live: approx. 25 Aug 2015 - Fix 'disallowed key characters' bug [Bug:22](https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player/issues/22) ### v1.1-26-g731260f [](#v11-26-g731260f) Release: 5 Jan/ Live: 14 Jan 2015 - Fix jQuery XSS vulnerability \[Bug:8\] ### v1.1-25-g535a7b7 [](#v11-25-g535a7b7) Release: 17 Dec/ Live: 18 Dec 2014 - Fix PHP notice/ warning \[Bug:7\] - Fix PHP `error_reporting()`/ `display_errors` use \[Bug:7\] ### v1.1-21-gba86785 [](#v11-21-gba86785) Release: 5 Dec/ Live: 11 Dec 2014 - Fix to add "no-proxy" support to Http library - intranet-restricted \[Bug:3\] - Fix cookies for intranet-restricted transcripts \[Bug:4\] - Add analytics events to OpenLearn (legacy) player \[Bug:5\] ### v1.1-12-g1f75bbf [](#v11-12-g1f75bbf) Release: 21 Nov/ Live: approx. 26 Nov 2014 - Fix OU Media Player for intranet-restricted content \[Bug:1\] ### v1.1-9-g17ff3ce [](#v11-9-g17ff3ce) Release: ~2 Jun/ Live: 12 Jun 2014 - Hide the title panel/ banner for OUICE/OU-branded pages [iet-it-bugs: 1486](http://iet-it-bugs.open.ac.uk/node/1486) [LTS-redmine: 10744](http://ltsredmine.open.ac.uk/issues/10744), - Fix: "In IE11 (Win8) we just see a black rectangle.." [iet-it-bugs: 1487](http://iet-it-bugs.open.ac.uk/node/1487) (CSS) - Fix: broken transcript links, - Fix: Remove "View on Podcast site" link for private media, - Fix: Correctly handle secure HTTPS media URLs, - Fix: add support for "" URLs, - Fix: remove "role=application" from Player embeds (accessibility), - Fix: time-display widget overlaps progress-bar - prevents dragging (CSS), - Add Google Analytics to OpenLearn player variant, add Player logo to about page. ### v1.0-rc.1-32-gd251c7a [](#v10-rc1-32-gd251c7a) Release: ~10 Dec/ Live: 12 Dec 2013 - Fix: full screen button, only top half works - FLV \[Ltsredmine: #8526\]\[lts#:8526\] - Fix: "no-Flash" message intermittently appearing (OpenLearn) \[#9072\] - Fix: I'm seeing subtitles twice - Chrome only \[#9071\] - Fix: full screen consistency, inc. follow up \[Ltsredmine: #7911\]\[lts#:7911\] - Fix: Player controls alignment CSS \[iet-it-bugs: #1485\]\[#:1485\] ### v1.0-rc.1-0-gd0bb0cb [](#v10-rc1-0-gd0bb0cb) v0.95-beta-80-gd0bb0cb Release: 25 July/ Live: approx. 30 July 2013 #### Player fixes following [LTS-tech-testing](http://ltsredmine.open.ac.uk/projects/ouplayer/issues): [](#player-fixes-following-lts-tech-testing) - List - todo - \[iet-it-bugs: #1477\]\[#:1477\] - Video offset bug \[Ltsredmine: #6932\]\[lts#:6932\] - Playing on tablet device \[Ltsredmine: #7182\]\[lts#:7182\] - .. ### v0.95-beta-39-g584d305 [](#v095-beta-39-g584d305) Release: 31 May/ Live: approx. 21 June 2013 ### v0.95-beta-30-gcfe9c2d [](#v095-beta-30-gcfe9c2d) Release: 20 May/ Live: approx. 23 May 2013 #### OU Player features: [](#ou-player-features) - The Player is now available under HTTPS/ SSL - initially for VLE use. #### OU Player bug fixes: [](#ou-player-bug-fixes) - Javascript/ configuration fix for video size - Internet Explorers/ MSIEs 7/ 9 \[Bug #1474\]\[#:1474\] - Config. fix to Ender/jeesh Javascript URL under HTTPS/ SSL \[Bug #1473\] - Fix for `no-svg` class in `oup-light` CSS stylesheet \[Bug #1476\] - Follow-up PHP fix for analytics \[Bug #1464\] ### v0.95-beta-2-gb72490b [](#v095-beta-2-gb72490b) Release: 31 January/ Live: approx. 7 February 2013 #### OU Player features: [](#ou-player-features-1) - Finished support for "rgb" colour parameter - VLE player \[Bug #1324\]\[#:1324\]; fix 2013-01-07, - Use new HTML transcript from OU Podcast site \[Bug #1460\]\[#:1460\]; fix 2013-01-22; ref #1409\], #### OU Player bug fixes: [](#ou-player-bug-fixes-1) - Fixed video size issue - Chrome etc. - ender/jeesh/VLE/ no captions \[Bug #1456\]\[#:1456\]; fix 2013-01-11; reported by Ray.Guo, - Tooltip styling/ Z-index bug \[Bug #1458\] - Podcast player "private" flag bug \[Bug #1448; fix 2013-01-10; reported by Ben.Hawkridge\] - Firefox VLE player bug - "Sorry, your browser appears.." \[Bug #1457\]\[#:1457\]; fix 2013-01-25; reported by Ray.Guo; \[Bug #1447\]\[#:1447\]; reported by Ben.Hawkridge, - "rgb" parameter error handling too draconian \[Bug #1453; fix 2013-01-07\] - Fixed access control - ignore private/ published flags, set cookie \[Bug #1463\]\[#:1463\]; fix 2013-01-30; reported by Ben.Hawkridge, #### OU Embed: [](#ou-embed) - OU Embed demo/preview form \[Bug #1455\]\[#:1455\] - Bibsonomy provider, ScraperWiki external provider \[Bug #1461; #1420\] - Embedding from Wordpress.com blogs - Noembed \[Cloudworks #310\] - Fileviewer provider, including CompendiumLD SVG \[Bug #1420\] - iSpot external provider \[Bug #1408; added 2012-10-11\] ### v0.9-beta-123-gfc4eaf3 [](#v09-beta-123-gfc4eaf3) Release: 10 December/ Live: 13 December 2012 - Upgrade to latest MediaElement.js 2.10.0 \[Bug #1368\]\[#:1368\]; commit 2012-12-10; 2.9.5-32-g98263df, - Upgrade to CodeIgniter 2.1.3 \[Bug #1410; commit 2012-10-31\] - Support "maxwidth" - plus experimental "pcwidth" (100% / percent width) \[Bug #1415\] - New placeholder/locked image for private podcasts \[Bug #1401; added 2012-09-25; by Peter Devine\] #### OU Player bug fixes (September-December 2012): [](#ou-player-bug-fixes-september-december-2012) - Chrome fails MP4 using mediaelement/ maybe-to-no \[Bug #1416\]\[#:1416\]; fix 2012-12-10, - PHP-Apache hangs on IT-EUD-Acct/ LOCK\_EX/ CodeIgniter logging \[Bug #1446; fix 2012-12-10\] - MSIE 9 compatibility view style/CSS width \[Bug #1417\] - Mobile fix - width=100%/ jQuery/Ender \[Bug #1414\] - Documentation \[Bug #1413\] - MY\_Input workaround for Drupal-oembed consumers \[Bug #1378; fixed 2012-11-06\] - MediaElement.js error/ event handling \[Bug #1412; fixed 2012-10-29\] - IT deployment fixes \[Bug #1406\]\[#:1406\]; #1400; September, Links ----- [](#links) - | - Bugs/ Issues: [IET-OU/open-media-player](https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player/issues/) Installation ------------ [](#installation) In brief, the steps for the installation of OU Media Player (non IT-EUD hosting) and OU-Embed are: 1. Get [the code](https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player), eg. `$ git clone https://github.com/IET-OU/open-media-player.git` 2. Copy: application/config/embed\_config.dist.php to application/config/embed\_config.php 3. Set `$config['debug']`, 4. Set `$config['podcast_feed_url_pattern']`, 5. Check `$config['http_proxy']`, 6. Create a data directory with `logs/` and `oupodcast/` sub-directories, and set permissions (eg. `$ chown -R apache:apache` ) 7. Set the data directory `$config['data_dir']` in application/config/embed\_config.php, 8. Set `$config['log_path']` in application/config/config.php Details and notes: - Installation guide: [extended readme on Google](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tg1mrPqniUp6evs0odfs7wughuMLY4r82-kFylVWQXE/edit#heading=h.1esjm0y5y8se) Ignore files ------------ [](#ignore-files) When importing to [*AllChange*](http://intasoft.net/our-products/allchange/) for [IT-EUD hosting](http://intranet4.open.ac.uk/wikis/sysdevdoc/EUD_Hosting_Process "End User Development hosting, IT-OU"), please ensure that these files and directories are ignored/ deleted: ``` .git/*/* -- ALL sub-directories/ files .gitignore _data/ -- To discuss(*) _data/logs/*.php _data/oupodcast/*.* application/logs/*.php ``` (\*) We need to either ignore the whole `_data/` directory, or most of its contents, including `logs/*.php` and `oupodcast/*`. Then [re-create - see install](#install). Include files ------------- [](#include-files) When importing to *AllChange*, please ensure that these files and directories are included/ implemented: ``` _data/ -- See [ignore](#ignore) application/*/* -- ALL sub-directories/ files.. except for [ignored files](#ignore) application/config/config.php -- Including.. config.php application/config/embed_config.php -- Including.. embed_config.php docs/* -- ALL files system/*/* -- ALL sub-directories/ files .htaccess .sams index.php license-ci.txt README.md robots.txt version.json ``` Credits ------- [](#credits) Open Media Player: Copyright © 2010-2021 [The Open University](http://www.open.ac.uk/) ([IET](https://iet.open.ac.uk/ "Institute of Educational Technology")). - Author: Nick Freear / Institute of Educational Technology, and many others. For full credits and licenses see [docs/CREDITS.txt](docs/CREDITS.txt) ### Health Score 28 — LowBetter than 54% of packages Maintenance8 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity15 Limited adoption so far Community19 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity62 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 98.7% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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