Russian News - Interactive Video

rexj's picture

Hello,

I have an instructor who teaches Russian and would like to be able to use current news in her class with the interactive . This is an example of a video she would like to use: https://www.1tv.ru/news/2015/06/13/19220-vladimir_putin_provyol_v_baku_p...

This video does not work with the interactive video tool. How might we accomplish this? 

Thank you.

otacke's picture

You would basically have to look at the page's source code to find a direct link to the video (often using .mp4 as suffix). The website tries to disguise this direct link a little bit, but it's http://v4-dtln.1internet.tv/video/2015_06/HD-news-2015_06_13-18_07_56.mp4 and you can use it with h5p.

rexj's picture

Thank you, otacke.

I wondered about that. How did you search once you viewed the source code? I did a 'Find' for ".mp4" and came up with zero results. Do you have any advice/tricks for locating the URL? 

Thank you.

rexj's picture

I could not find anything when I viewed the source and used ctrl-F to look for the terms mp4, and video. Neither returned anything helpful.

I then tried inspecting the code with the video running and was able to find a URL for the video, but it was different that yours. Can you explain this at all?

Thank you.

otacke's picture

Actually, there are several ways, ranging from watching the network connections (e.g. via Firefox's browser console) to having a "better" look at the source with browser plugins like Firebug - you'd be able to spot the content data-playlist-url="/video_materials.json?news_ids%5B%5D=19220&sort=time" (looking for 'play' is often a good search string) easily which made me suspicions, and https://www.1tv.ru/video_materials.json?news_ids%5B%5D=19220&sort=ti... in fact lead you to the configuration setting up the video. You can find the link there. Often, the browser's developer tools are handy, too, allowing you to peek at the DOM, single elements, etc.

rexj's picture

Thank you, otacke.