Try saving the movie without hinting... You don't mention what version
of
QUicktime you're using but after version 4 compressing the headers for
Internet Fast Start shouldn't be neccessary either .
Hinting is only good for streaming, not for progressive download
I am having trouble preparing a CD with QuickTime content embedded in
web
pages.
It seems with my particular movie the QT plug-in in safari is trying
to load
the whole movie straight away (rather than progressively). This is
basically
consuming the whole machines resources until the movie is fully
loaded. The
movie is quite large and as such it takes a very long time to load
giving
the user the impression that the browser has hung.
The content unfortunately was prepared by someone else who is
unavailable to
fix the problem. It is compressed using Sorenson video and IMA 4:1
audio and
I believe it is hinted as well (I have also re-exported the movie as a
hinted movie to confirm this).
I have seen other movies on the internet play perfectly in Safari
which
leads me to believe that my movie is the problem...
The behaviour you mention is typical with local movies, and the problem
can often be attributed to the browser. It is the browser which is
frantically loading the whole movie into its cache, before passing it
on to the QuickTime plugin. On the net this franticness doesn't occur,
because movie download speed is limited by bandwidth and happens at a
more leisurely pace.
To avoid the problem, you can tell the QuickTime plugin to load the
movie directly, bypassing the browser. You still have to indicate some
kind of movie for the browser to load in the EMBED or OBJECT tag's SRC
parameter, but you should pass the URL of a tiny, dummy movie instead.
It should be small to avoid download delays, but it must be something
QuickTime can open. It won't actually be displayed though.
Next, you specify the movie you really want to display in the the QTSRC
plugin parameter (this overrides the SRC). Additionally, include the
QTSRCDONTUSEBROWSER parameter and set it to "true". This tells
QuickTime to load the movie specified by QTSRC by using it's own,
internal methods, and not use the browser for downloading.
-- Thomas Fruin
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