

If users do not have these installed they may be prompted to go and install them by their browser. Moodle's default media player is VideoJS player.Īlthough Moodle prepares the media files to be played in the browser, the actual playback is handled by various types of browser plug-in software, primarily Adobe Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player and Real Player.

They can enable and disable certain media players from 'Manage media players' also in Site administration. See also Media embedding.Ī site administrator can enable the multimedia plugins filter from 'Manage filters' in Site administration. When the MP3 audio plugin has been turned on, the student will be able to play them in Moodle using a media player on their computer. The actual player resides on each users' computer.įor example, a teacher may put a MP3 audio file as a resource in their course, or have a URL link to an external MP3 file. The Multimedia plugins filter finds a link in text that points to a multimedia resource and replaces the link with an appropriate multimedia player code which can play the resource.
