An alternate way to do it would be to make a standard reference movie for
your stream. Then, copy a frame from your source video (the first frame in
your case), and paste it to the very beginning of the reference movie. Then,
embed the reference movie, like normal, and turn autoplay off. Now, it'll
look like the first frame of the stream is frozen in place, and the user is
free to click play or drag the little nubbin in the timeline to start
somewhere down the line.
I've posted a quick and dirty example up at
<http://commons.ucalgary.ca/~king/frozen/>. It doesn't really work visually
for this video since there's a fade up at the beginning, but it shows the
idea.
King Chung Huang
Learning Commons
University of Calgary
On 5/24/03 10:55 PM, "Francesco Schiavon" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> At 13:07 +0200 5/24/03, David Ljunghill wrote:
>> I'm trying to publish some streaming quicktime movies on my web site.
>> I want to show a preview of each movie by automatically showing the
>> first frame, e.g. the movies should to be in a streaming but paused
>> state when the web page loads.
>>
>> Any advice on how to accomplish this?
>
> Maybe the easiest way is to create a poster movie, like those on some
> of the movie trailers on the Apple site.
>
> Export a frame from your streaming video
> Open such image file in the QT Player Pro
> Save as a self contained movie
> Embed that self contained movie in HTML with an HREF to the actual
> streaming media or reference of the streaming media. To have the
> streaming media replace the current poster movie, use the "target"
> attribute with a value of "myself". You may want to have the
> streaming open in the QT Player instead; for that "target" attribute
> use a value of "quicktimeplayer".
>
> Here's a bit of documentation:
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html
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