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Re: Poster Movies

Regarding the discussion of Poster Movies that inherit or fail to inherit embed tag attributes, I notice that the "Embedding QuickTime for Web Delivery" at:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html

...does not reference this material from "Whats_New_QuickTime_5.pdf"

New Plugin Features
) Apple Computer, Inc 10/4/01
SaveEmbedTags 1
You can tell the QuickTime browser plugin to apply the current parameter
values to a new movie by setting SaveEmbedTags=True. This causes a movie
specified in an HREF parameter, for example, to behave like a movie loaded
using the QTNEXT parameter - it inherits the current parameter values instead of
being reset to the default values.
Example:
<EMBED SRC=ClickMe.mov HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320
AUTOPLAY=True CONTROLLER=False LOOP=True
HREF=YouClickedIt.mov TARGET=myself SAVEEMBEDTAGS=True >
This example would cause the plugin to autoplay ClickMe.mov in an endless
loop with no controller. If the viewer clicked inside the movie's display area, the
plugin would load YouClickedIt.mov, which would also autoplay in a loop with
no controller.
Like the values inherited through use of the QTNEXT parameter, the parameter
values set using this method take precedence over any values embedded in the
new movie using Plugin Helper or set by user preferences. You can change this
using the new AllowEmbedTagOverrides parameter.
AllowEmbedTagOverrides 1
Setting the AllowEmbedTagOverrides parameter allows you to control whether
the current parameter settings can be overridden by lower priority methods.
This parameter can be set within your HTML or by embedding the parameter
value in a movie, or both.
By default, EMBED tag parameter values set in HTML have higher priority than
values embedded in a movie, which in turn take priority over user preferences.
Similarly, when a movie inherits parameter values (because of the QTNEXT or
SaveEmbedTags parameters), these inherited values take precedence over any
values embedded in the movie itself, or specified by user preferences.
If you set AllowEmbedTagOverrides=True in your HTML, however, the current
settings can be overridden by settings embedded in a movie using Plugin
Helper, which in turn can be overridden by user preferences.
Bear in mind that this affects only parameters whose value you explicitly set. If
you do not set a parameter's value in your HTML, for example, that parameter
can always be set by Plugin Helper or by the user preferences.
You would normally set AllowEmbedTagOverrides=True in your HTML to allow
settings embedded in a new movie to take precedence over the current settings.
For example, when a new movie is specified by the QTNEXT parameter, or when
the SaveEmbedTags parameter is set true, the new movie inherits the current
parameter settings, and these settings take precedence over settings embedded
in the new movie. By setting AllowEmbedTagOverrides to true, you can cause the
new movie to inherit the current settings as default values, but override them
with any settings embedded in the new movie.
Example:
<EMBED SRC=ClickMe.mov HEIGHT=240 WIDTH=320
CONTROLLER=False HREF=YouClickedIt.mov TARGET=myself SaveEmbedTags=True
AllowEmbedTagOverrides=True >
In this example, when the viewer clicks in the display area of ClickMe.mov, the
plugin loads YouClickedIt.mov. Because SaveEmbedTags is set True, the new
movie inherits the parameter values set in the HTML (CONTROLLER=False) as well
as any parameter settings embedded in ClickMe.mov, but because
AllowEmbedTagOverrides is also true, these act as defaults that can be overriden
by any settings embedded in YouClickedIt.mov, which could, for example, set
CONTROLLER=True.
Note that when AllowEmbedTagOverrides=True, the AUTOPLAY parameter is
controlled by the user's QuickTime Settings control panel. If you set
AllowEmbedTagOverrides=True in your HTML, and you want to control the
AUTOPLAY parameter, you need to set AllowEmbedTagOverrides=False inside the
new movie using a tool such as Plugin Helper. Otherwise, your setting will be
overriden by the user's preferences.
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References: 
 >Re: Poster Movies (From: Raymond Riley <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Poster Movies (From: Francesco Schiavon <email@hidden>)



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