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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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#17 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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#19 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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#21 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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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
awesome!
thanks for letting me know.
And yes, I will get rid of those <code>language=“javascript”</code> items, thanks for pointing it out.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey Wolle, FYI, I just updated walk_qt to v0.6. I have completely fixed the file specifier. If you use a file id in the video custom_field, it now works perfectly. Your test case should be fixed.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hi Walker, thanks a lot! Great work! I installed v0.6 and now everything works like a charme! Thank you very much!
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey, this sounds a very nice plugin, but is there anyplace where i can see it in action ?
I wen trhough the forum posts and saw no urls …
thx
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
You can see it here (this is a non-javascript embed enabled version).
You can see the javascript version working on my site
The example on my site is using javascript to embed (to get around the soon to be a problem Eolas patch for IE) and is using the pages -> article -> forms method of determining what movie to embed……so it’s working like a video blogger would want it to work if they wanted to just make a new “article” every day and specify a custom_field with the video ID of that day’s video entry. etc.
Last edited by Walker (2006-06-27 17:42:57)
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
ace plugin :)
I have a question – would it be complicated to make the plugin search for a custom-field other than one called ‘video’?
I’m using it on a site with mp3s and movies mixed together in the file manager.
The upm_img_popper plugin is really useful for adding file IDs to custom fields, but it can be set to target only one field.
So it puts movie IDs in my ‘mp3’ field (or vice versa). It would be nice to have a joint ‘mp3/video’ field for the popper to target.
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