Even better: http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/
Kyle http://www.kylehall.info Information Technology Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you thought about using the HTML 5 <audio> tag? > > http://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/ > > Kyle > > http://www.kylehall.info > Information Technology > Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org ) > > > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Darrell Ulm <darrell...@smfpl.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Working on putting sound events into Koha 3.2 but it is a bit of a pickle. >> >> While I have it working using <embed (embed is the problem, works to a point, >> but please read below) ... <embed is not the solution for playing the sound >> >> My question is *what is?*. Currently the two best candidates are playing >> with a >> Java Applet (works very well and loads concurrently so no delay) or Flash, >> which >> I have not tested. >> >> Basically to get decent sound, we are going to need a plug-in, because web >> browsers just don't cut it for playing sound in a fast environment. >> >> <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="soundon" --> >> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> >> if ( get_cookie( "kohastaffsound" ) == "yes" ) >> { >> document.write('Sounding...'); >> document.write('<embed src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/sound/beep.wav" hidden >> autostart="true" loop="false" />'); >> } >> </script> >> <!-- /TMPL_IF --> >> >> in Circulation.tmpl >> >> along with a cookie (kohastaffsound) controlled audio on and off (note the >> syspref "soundon" also) which is set by a toggle button in header.inc (may >> not >> be the best place) >> >> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> >> if ( get_cookie( "kohastaffsound" ) == "yes" ) >> { >> document.write('<img >> src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/famfamfam/silk/sound.png" >> onClick=\'delete_cookie ( "kohastaffsound" ); window.location.reload();\' >> >'); >> } >> else >> { >> document.write('<img >> src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/img/famfamfam/silk/sound_mute.png" >> onClick=\'set_cookie( "kohastaffsound", "yes", 2020, 01, 01 ); >> window.location.reload();\' >'); >> } >> </script> >> >> That is about it, which is fine, except the silly <EMBED is weird and flashes >> the screen as well as slows everything down. I think if I aim for a very >> small >> audio file this could be improved, however, there is a delay with the <embed. >> >> With <Embed we have >> >> * Firefox 3.6 there is a delay and an entire screen refresh, but works the >> best. >> >> * Chrome 4 there is a delay, then the sound plays late, and it even messes up >> the formatting >> >> * IE8 - worked great- loads quick - , but not so with Firefox which is a >> must >> >> * Opera - Worked the best, very quick load on Circ, but other things did not, >> unrelated the sound changes >> >> It seems one way to get around this is to NOT use Embed, and instead use Java >> with a class (open source of course) to handle playing a sound on demand. >> >> Has anyone else thought about this or experimented. The issue is mainly with >> the >> browsers and the lack of support for sound. Using straight javascript to play >> the sound works worse than embed across the browsers, which is probably why >> Jquery doesn't have a good sound plug-in. >> >> I think the reason sound is important, is so at the *end* of a transaction >> (check-in / out) there is a beep, to speed up these tasks. Also, when there >> is >> an exception on a book (missing barcode) there should be an audible warning. >> These are often missed, because Koha does not have sound cues, and other ILS >> systems do. >> >> What do you all think? >> >> Darrell Ulm >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> koha-de...@nongnu.org >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list koha-de...@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
