Play Video Once Only

#1

I give students online English conversation practice online with the emphasis on extemporization: rather than allowing them time to write a script, they must answer my questions immediately.

In order that they don’t cheat I have used a player that allows them to play a short question video (the sound from which they must record at the start of their answer video) ONLY ONCE.

I used the code
<video controls=“controls” onplaying=“this.controls=false” autoplay=“autoplay”><source src=“URL/filename.mp4” type=“video/mp4”>

(The autoplay often did not work, but that does not matter. It does not need to auto play)

Now my university requires that I use the kaltura player and gives me the following code

<iframe src="https://cak01fn.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/p/101/sp/10100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/23448408/partner_id/101?iframeembed=true&playerId=kaltura_player_1623890275120&entry_id=0_ixx36l0r" width="560" height="395" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>

Or URL

Is there some way that I can change the code above so that students are (unless they hack) only allowed to play the video once?

(I appreciate that with a bit of hacking the students could probably have played the video more than once but my students are not good at hacking)

I hope this is possible!

I would be very grateful of your help.

Tim
Timothy Takemoto
Yamaguchi University

How to configure iframe embeded player?
#2

I tried to add a flashvar

<iframe src="https://cak01fn.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/p/101/sp/10100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/23448408/partner_id/101?iframeembed=true&playerId=kaltura_player_1623900163033&entry_id=0_98gnzd4z&flashvars[autoPLay]=true" width="560" height="395" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>

but it did not result in the video autoplaying.

#3

From
http://player.kaltura.com/docs/Chromeless
This is the code to get rid of the controls
http://player.kaltura.com/docs/Chromeless#{"flashvars":{"controlBarContainer.plugin":false,"largePlayBtn.plugin":false,"loadingSpinner.plugin":false,"inlineScript":false}}

So in theory the following, would autoplay and have no controls to allow replaying (I am happy for there to be a loading spinner)
&flashvars[autoPLay]=true&flasvars[controlBarContainer.plugin]=false&flasvars[largePlayBtn.plugin]=false`

like this (with my content)
<iframe src="https://cak01fn.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/p/101/sp/10100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/23448408/partner_id/101?iframeembed=true&playerId=kaltura_player_1623900163033&entry_id=0_3b0repci&flashvars[autoPLay]=true&flasvars[controlBarContainer.plugin]=false&flasvars[largePlayBtn.plugin]=false" width=“320” height=“240” frameborder=“0” allow=“encrypted-media”>`

But I can’t get any flashvars to work!

#4

Does anyone have any idea why flashvars do not work for me?
Tim

#5

I’ve been trying to get autoplay to work after writing in the embed code when the user clicks on a static poster frame. Initially this didn’t work with &flashvars[autoplay]=true but in looking at your problem, I tried again with &flashvars[autoPlay]=true and that worked. It might be as simple as changing your autoPLay to autoPlay. I hope that works for you too.