This is to share what we discovered in the pursuit of the following design goals:
1) avoid browser handling as much as possible
2) use media from disparate locations (poster movie, dummy movie and actual movie are in three different locations)
We approached the first objective in two ways. First, we chose to play the actual movie in the QuickTime Player. This is done by putting up a Poster Movie with an HREF tag that targets the QuickTime Player. But what about the poster movie? How do we keep that out of browser hands? Thus, the second strategy which is where we used the QRSRC and QTSCRDONTUSEBROWSER tags. This requires putting something different in the SRC= than is put in QTSRC=. For this a dummy movie was created by opening QuickTime Pro and doing File > New Player followed immediately by saving as "dummy.mov."
The second objective was pursued by using absolute URLs and hoping that would be sufficient which, as it turns out, it was. So the normal rule that poster movie, actual movie and dummy movie be in the same folder has an important exception. You can ignore this requirement if you use absolute URLs.
The proof of concept example is at:
http://sleepy.gcsu.edu/podCast/QTP_example/index.html
... where you should find the following object/embed code. BTW, we use Pageot 1.9.4 which is a great assist when things get complicated as it did in this case.
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="320" height="230" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab";>
<param name="src" value="http://ipod.gcsu.edu/zzzzMedia/dummy.mov";>
<param name="qtsrc" value="http://ipod.gcsu.edu/zzzzMedia/podcast_icon_fac.mov";>
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="cache" value="false">
<param name="href" value="http://sleepy.gcsu.edu/podCast/QTP_example/Hydaspesfine.m4v";>
<param name="SaveEmbedTags" value="true">
<param name="target" value="quicktimeplayer">
<param name ="qtsrcdontusebrowser" value="TRUE">
<embed
src="http://ipod.gcsu.edu/zzzzMedia/dummy.mov";
width="320" height="230"
controller="false"
autoplay="true"
cache="false"
href="http://sleepy.gcsu.edu/podCast/QTP_example/Hydaspesfine.m4v";
SaveEmbedTags="true"
target="quicktimeplayer"
qtsrc="http://ipod.gcsu.edu/zzzzMedia/podcast_icon_fac.mov";
qtsrcdontusebrowser="TRUE"
type="video/quicktime"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/";>
</embed>
</object>
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