What in the world is a .el8 file?

Question

I am taking an online Latin class, and they gave me a video to watch.

A .el8.

What? el8? I have never heard of that in my life. It's supposed to be a video, so I tried renaming it to a .mov (Latin teachers not being known for computational excellence), but no dice.

I'm running OS X 10.8. How do I open this thing?

Running file on it shows:

/Users/admin/Desktop/U734806R4970S3962792726.mov: data

And the first few lines of looking at it in vi are as follows:

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slhck · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-25T18:57:48.733

The data vim showed you when you opened the binary file contained the string eLecta, which points me to eLecta, a virtual classroom software.

Since the software is commercial, your teacher should have supplied you with a player embedded in some web-site rather than a standalone download. It uses Java to play the file.

Otherwise you can maybe try installing the free trial to play the file by setting up your own course.

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 13:56

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El8 can be played online only. Please ask your teacher to give you a playable link instead of a file.

answered Aug 25 '13 at 13:56

george

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Michael Konietzka · Answer 3 · 2013-08-25T17:43:31.810

FAQ: Publishing a recorded session which does not reside on the eLecta Live servers mentions an online player for recorded sessions.

B: Publishing a recorded session which does not reside on the eLecta Live servers

Log into your account;

Click on Manage Recorded Sessions from the Moderators menu;

Find the recording ->> click on More - >> click on the Download1 button and download the file locally on your computer.

Upload the same file to your server as if uploading a regular file. The location may look like:

http://www.YourSite.com/YourFile.el7

Embed the following link on your site for your visitors: http://e-lectazone.com/tools/play_uni.asp?url=http://www.YourSite.com/YourFile.el7

IMPORTANT

You may need to configure your web site to allow the following mime types.

.el8 - application/octetstream

.el7 - application/octetstream

.el6 - application/octetstream

.el5 - application/octetstream

.electa - application/octetstream

Please refer to your web site hosting support documentation on how to add mime types.

Maybe this works for your .el8. So you can upload it to a webserver, configuring the MIME-types accordingly if necessary, and start watching the show.

What in the world is a .el8 file?

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