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javabear90
Jun 27, 2004, 10:05 PM
For some reason I cannot get my movie to work with the quicktime plugin. My movie (http://charon.sjs.org/~ted/movies/BRCT/small2.mov ) seems to play but it takes for ever to load. I have tried the source thing. Here is the acuall page for it http://charon.sjs.org/~ted/images/BRCT/brct%20-small.html You can view the source to see if I did the plugin correctly. Something of interest is that it is a quicktime slideshow that I made in iMovie. I did the hinting thing, and preparation for streaming, I have also checked my code over and over again, and it is still not working, HELP! :confused:



javabear90
Jun 27, 2004, 10:15 PM
a ha! it plays.. it was in a tab and all of the sudden started playing! :) However ( :( ) I would like it to stream ( I think thats it) where it plays automaticly. And so it plays while downloading.

javabear90
Jun 27, 2004, 10:47 PM
anyone?? :confused: :( :mad: :mad: :( :confused:

ChrisFromCanada
Jun 27, 2004, 10:49 PM
Here is an example from the apple site...try doing exactly like that.(just changing the names and size.


<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="TRUE">
<param name="cache" value="FALSE">
<param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html">
<param name="target" value="myself">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="SRC" value="INSERT NAME HERE">
<embed width="480" height="286" src="INSERT NAME HERE" autoplay=TRUE controller="TRUE" border="0" cache="FALSE" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html" target="myself"></embed>


I could be completely wrong but its the first thing that came to mind.

javabear90
Jun 27, 2004, 10:58 PM
Here is an example from the apple site...try doing exactly like that.(just changing the names and size.


<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="TRUE">
<param name="cache" value="FALSE">
<param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html">
<param name="target" value="myself">
<param name="type" value="video/quicktime">
<param name="SRC" value="INSERT NAME HERE">
<embed width="480" height="286" src="INSERT NAME HERE" autoplay=TRUE controller="TRUE" border="0" cache="FALSE" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html" target="myself"></embed>


I could be completely wrong but its the first thing that came to mind.

no, that dosn't work... :( It plays after 10 minutes thogh, just like the others.

I originally tried this cod :
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="256" width="320">
<param name="src" value="yourmovie.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="controller" value="true">
<embed height="256" width="320" src="yourmovie.mov" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" type="video/quicktime" controller="true" autoplay="true">
</object>


it worked with the other movie just fine, but this it dosn't


http://charon.sjs.org/~ted/images/BRCT/brct%20-small.html :(

Nermal
Jun 27, 2004, 11:40 PM
How fast is your Internet connection? If the bitrate of the video is higher than the bandwidth of your connection, then it will spend a long time buffering before it starts to play. For example, if your connection is 100 kb/s and the video is 200 kb/s, it will need to download 50% of the video before it can start playing.

javabear90
Jun 27, 2004, 11:50 PM
How fast is your Internet connection? If the bitrate of the video is higher than the bandwidth of your connection, then it will spend a long time buffering before it starts to play. For example, if your connection is 100 kb/s and the video is 200 kb/s, it will need to download 50% of the video before it can start playing.

it is fast enough, also that is not the problem because i don't even see anything except the quicktime symbol, whereas on all of the others I see the 1st frame of the movie and the little staus bar below.

rendezvouscp
Jun 30, 2004, 04:10 AM
Here is a very good tutorial on how to stream and embed properly. I used it to make some of my streaming video on my website (which, btw, I ended up not using). DreamWeaver (http://www.sonoma.edu/it/websupport/faq/qtdw.html)
Plain HTML (http://www.sonoma.edu/it/websupport/faq/qtcode.html)
–Chase