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FlvHandler is a MediaWiki extension.

• Main purpose: Support inserting Flash video players onto wiki pages using normal image syntax. Supports FLV+MP3 or H.264+AAC codecs inside FLV or MP4 containers.
• Repository: https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/FlvHandler
• Homepage: FlvHandler on mediawiki.org 
• Compatible MediaWiki versions: guaranteed 1.16+, maybe others
• License: GPLv2.0+ 
• Created: 2009-02-01 
• Our rating: Definitely useful (5)

Status for Mediawiki4Intranet distribution:

• Inclusion date: 2009-09-09
• Included version: newest available
• Improvement status: Forked in MediaWiki4Intranet with major improvements

Usage

After installation you can insert videoplayers on wiki pages using normal wiki-syntax: [[File:Video.mp4]].

Improvements

• Video player code is embedded anywhere (including Image Page) except Image Galleries and when size is set less than $wgMinFLVSize[] = array(180,180) by default. In Image Galleries, a «filmstrip» icon is also shown below each video to distinguish between videos and images.
• Some error message formatting.
• English+Russian i18n.
• Removed commented out legacy-code (no hooks at all!).
• Ability to set $wgFLVConverters and $wgFLVProbes before the inclusion of FlvHandler.php.
• Automatic prepending of $wgFlashPlayer with MediaWiki script path ($wgScriptPath).
• Support for any Unicode video file names (r3 can not download files with non-latin1 filenames).
• Collages of 4 frames as previews when size is more than $wgMinFLVSize.
• Modified FlvHandler is free of errors «frame size must be a multiple of 2» generated by ffmpeg, because the frame is extracted, and THEN resized using ImageMagick.
• Flow player 3.1.3 bundled.

TODO

Return these changes back to trunk.

Example

Example

Installation

1. Install ffmpeg on your server (see also window$ version) and make sure it’s in PATH environment variable.
2. Then as usual put require_once "$IP/extensions/FlvHandler/FlvHandler.php"; to your LocalSettings.php.
3. To disable embedding of video player code on image galleries and image pages, you need to apply 1-line patches to ImageGallery.php and ImagePage.php:

patch includes/ImagePage.php < extensions/FlvHandler/ImagePage.php.diff
patch includes/ImageGallery.php < extensions/FlvHandler/ImageGallery.php.diff