[IIAB] epub and Khan videos

[Braddock]

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Hi Tony,
Exciting to hear IIAB will be deployed to Lesotho with the School
Server.

This is still XS 0.7, or the new XSCE?  Is this the XS IIAB install
you did over the summer?

We'll look into these issues.  Your exact installation method would be
valuable if you took any notes.

I'm copying the IIAB mailing list.

thanks,
- -braddock


On 12/30/2013 01:36 AM, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I held a workshop for teachers from the two schools in Lesotho over
> the weekend.
> 
> I did encounter a problem with IIAB. The url generated for the
> Khan Academy videos and for download of epubs is not working. I
> thought the video problem was not having the codec installed but if
> I download one manually, it plays. The epub download is the html
> for the details screen, not the epub file.
> 
> In the epub case, I looked up 'three little pigs' getting:
> 
> iiab/books/text/etext18155/details
> 
> On this page read gives:
> 
> iiab/books/htmlz/18155/index.html
> 
> However, download gives:
> 
> iiab/books/epub/18155.epub (the actual target is 
> knowledge/modules/gutenberg-epub-images/55/pg18155.epub)
> 
> The result of clicking on download is to send the html for the
> details screen to the Journal not the epub file.
> 
> I looked in the module gutenberg.py 
> (iiab-venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/iiab/). This has the line:
> 
> if find_epub(pgid) is not None: epub_url =
> url_for('gutenberg_content_views.epub_ext', pgid=pgid) else: 
> epub_url = None
> 
> This module has:
> 
> @blueprint.route('/epub/<int:pgid>') def epub(pgid): epub_path =
> find_epub(pgid) if epub_path is None: print "EPub Path not found "
> + str(pgid) abort(404) return send_file(epub_path,
> mimetype='application/epub+zip')
> 
> 
> @blueprint.route('/epub/<int:pgid>.epub') def epub_ext(pgid): 
> return epub(pgid)
> 
> In gutenberg_content.py, find_epub is:
> 
> def find_epub(pgid): """Find an epub file from a gutenberg book
> id. Prefers epub with images if available, otherwise falls back to
> non-image version.  Returns None if no content exists""" epub_dir =
> config().get_path('GUTENBERG', 'epub_dir') epub_images_dir =
> config().get_path('GUTENBERG', 'epub_images_dir') hashpath =
> hashdir(pgid) filename = build_epub_filename(pgid) hashpath =
> os.path.join(hashpath, filename) epub_path =
> os.path.join(epub_images_dir, hashpath) if not
> os.path.exists(epub_path): epub_path = os.path.join(epub_dir,
> hashpath) if not os.path.exists(epub_path): return None return
> epub_path
> 
> I suspect that we're getting 'not exists' although it should have
> found the file.
> 
> The problem with the videos is that I would like to be able to have
> them downloaded and played by the Jukebox activity rather than
> streamed. This should have two benefits: (1) the child can watch
> the video at home offline from the schoolserver and (2) it should 
> allow demand on the network bandwidth to be spread since watching
> will not keep that client from accessing the LAN network for some
> minutes.
> 
> We are also using Khan Academy Lite which seems to include all of
> the Khan Academy videos as well. It would be nice to figure out an
> efficient way to link all references to a common file.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 

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