Playback 2009-12-08 10:47 GMT

Troubadour CMS currently uses WordPress Audio Player for mp3 playback, browser's native HTML 5 based player for Ogg file types (Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome only), and Troubadour Player for multimedia presentations and video.

MP3 sound files

You can listen MP3 files by:

• Listen file from "Play"-button. (1)
• Open player new window, and playback starts automatically. (2)

While playing, you have following actions available:

• Sound volume may be adjusted from left side, dragging to left or right. (3)
• Move to specific point by clicking progress area. (4)
• Pause button closes the player, but playback continues from there when restarted. (5)

Below the player you can download the files if needed. Downloading is available for all media types, embedded player for MP3, Ogg, and Flash compatible video files.

Multimedia presentations

Some sound files may have slide attached. Presentations starts by clicking it once. (Before starting, the presentation is shadowed by a grey triangle.) Downloading necessary files may take a while.

Presentation looks like this. (Example from http://www.helsinki.fi/podcast/?id=97)

Parts are:

1. Content area - Slides are viewed here.
2. Navigation list - slide titles, visible slide with grey background.
3. Progress bar - grey bar shows current time, smaller marks are slide changes.
4. Play/Pause button
5. Volume
6. Full screen - return by pressing ESC, or reclick the button.

You may jump within presentation by clicking slide titles in navigation list (2), or by clicking progress bar.

Below actual presentations are available for download the files from which it is constructed (7), and the are also available in podcast feed.

Video (FLV,MP4)

Video shows like multimedia presentation, but (at least for the moment) left side navigation is missing.