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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey, I fixed the autoplay thing. I also added a note to the help section about the file number issue. I was aware of it, but I think that what is happening is that the movie will not play if using the file number until the entire thing has loaded no matter the autoplay setting. I think this has to do with the fact that textpattern is using passthru for those file.
let me know if the file doesn’t play at all (even after it having loaded entirely).
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Thanks for the quick answer! The file doesn’t play at all. After a few seconds the questionmark appears, nothing happens from this moment.
I created a testsite where you can see the result: http://www.klacks.de/klecks/erfahren/12/kleiner-testlauf
(The site isn’t ready … ;-))
The code for the embedded first movie is entered direct in the article – with direct link to the file.
The second movie comes from your plugin (pointing to the same file, using the ID).
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Ummm….yes, you need to upload your movie to your server. Use the files tab.
Using the files tab, you can only upload smaller video files.
If you can’t upload it there, then try FTP….it’ll usually do any size movie.
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#16 2006-05-24 19:03:43
- mattgilbert
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
this might be a silly question, but is there a way to have a file appear in the files tab if you’ve uploaded it with ftp?
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
mmmmm
I do this with large movies. I upload a 1kb text file called “mymovie.mov” using the files tab.
Then I use ftp to upload my movie to the files folder (the actual .mov file called “mymovie.mov”)
This way you can still use files to manage the movies but you don’t have to deal with the timeout that extra-large movies will cause.
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#18 2006-05-25 15:04:08
- mattgilbert
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
hi,
i’m trying to grab the walk_js file that’s liked in the help, but i’m getting a 404 error. is the file available somewhere else?
the dead (for me) link is: http://dev.signalfade.com/txp/walk_js.zip
Last edited by mattgilbert (2006-05-25 15:04:56)
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey, that same URL should work now.
(I just changed the name of the zip file to what it should have been).
My Bad.
Oh……and I have yet to hear of people successfully using the js embed method I just built into walk_qt.
Let me know how it goes. Or if you have any problems…..
Last edited by Walker (2006-05-25 16:28:13)
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#20 2006-05-25 17:09:14
- mattgilbert
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
thanks walker. everything seems to be working fine in firefox/mac and IE/windows, with and without js.
i wonder if there’s a way for the plugin to automatically find the width and height of the video file, so they don’t need to be passed as attributes…
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
I’ll look into it.
I know that php and javascript can both find the width of an image, but I’ve never checked on that with a movie.
I’ll look into it.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Sorry, I just checked and because of Apple’s spec, movies must have width and height specified.
They did this so that you can load a hi-res movie smaller than it actually is or a lo-res movie larger than it actually is.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Great plugin. Works like a charm, I did go in and remove the “language=javascript” notices from the code, because it will not validate unless these are gone, so you may want to remove them in future releases. I’m also using the javascript method and it works great!
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