Jamie,
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jamie wrote:
> Oh, sorry.
Nothing to be sorry about ;-)
A vendor and platform embed tag for vendor and platform independent
media, something like that would be usefull, btw,
http://gurke.bootlab.org/~uzs106/bla/ibmisma.html works on Win 2000
with the latest IE out of the box!
That would mean that the main importance of QT (for very simple cases!!)
wouldnt be as a player, but as an authoring tool etc (After Effects etc
are made on top of it - sotosay).
Well, how will we watch movies tomorrow? ;-)
Thanks for the URLs,
best,
H.
>
> I think what your talking about has been included in the HTML spec by the
> w3.
>
> You can determine roll over players/agents using the <object> tag. If one
> fails, the media will attempt to be played back by another agent and so on.
>
> For more information, see what the w3 have to say about this...
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.4
>
> Jamie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heiko Recktenwald [mailto:email@hidden]
>
> No, I mean the opposite here;-)
> That MPEG URLs are played when some application, that can play them, is
> allready installed, without the need to download and install QT.
> Currently it is limited to MPEG 1, I think it once worked with IE and WMP
> and the embed tag, maybe IE 5, and maybe it doesnt work anymore, havent
> made tests.
>
> Well, in theory, it could work with Real and MPEG 4, if the QT libraries
> are installed, but then it wouldnt make sense.
>
> The most easy way to do what you want is to use an rtsptext.mov, just a
> line of text, the url and the magic word rtsptext. Instead of a poster
> movie, which may look nicer.
>
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
QuickTime-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quicktime-users/email@hidden
This email sent to email@hidden
