> <EMBED> tag is not enough, you need to use <OBJECT> tag with a nested
<EMBED>
> tag in it, so that it will always work on IE/Win browser (OBJECT tag can
> specify the movie will open with QuickTime, not Real or Windows Media
Player
> or other similar product which don't support for example QuickTime VR and
> other extra stuff that QuickTime movies can have, but support only linear
> QuickTime movies compressed with Cinepak)
>
> Apple has info on their website about it:
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html
>
> --
> George Birbilis (email@hidden)
> http://www.kagi.com/birbilis
>
>
> Aqwij| l^mula ap| "Kutikkad, Geetha V \\(UMC-Student\\)"
<email@hidden>:
>
> > Hi George:
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to reply my posting. Somebody else pointed
out
> > the same thing, about using the EMBED tag which I wasn't using (I was
using
> > <img > tag). So now it is working. Thanks again.
> >
> > Gita
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: George Birbilis [mailto:email@hidden]
> > Sent: Sat 3/20/2004 2:48 PM
> > To: Kutikkad, Geetha V (UMC-Student); Roger Howard
> > Cc: email@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Storing qtvr objects in mysql using php
> >
> >
> >
> > first try opening the files locally at the server. Do they open up? (do
> > install QuickTime)
> > if server is UNIX, get ONE of those files on a Mac or PC and try opening
it
> > if it doesn't open, then maybe they got corrupted when transfering
to/from
> > the server or they're not saved as self-contained movies and have
references
> > to external data
> >
> > if they open OK locally, then try remotely to open them using a DIRECT
URL
> > to the file
> > of the style http://myserver.com/somefolder/somefile.mov
> > try opening them with the QuickTime Player application, not with a web
> > browser!!!
> >
> > if it opens OK, then try remotly to open them using your database-style
URL:
> > http://myserver.com/getFile.php?filename=somefile.mov
> > or something and see if it opens up. If not, then it's some problem with
> > your script since with the direct URL to the file they were opening OK
> >
> > the database-style URL should serve an autogenerated HTML page for the
movie
> > files, not the files themselves!!!
> > the HTML should contain an OBJECT+EMBED tag combination as explained on
the
> > Apple website. Use the free online "Pageot" tool (search list archive
for
> > it) to generate such OBJECT+EMBED tags (try it to understand the syntax
of
> > those tags). You shouldn't serve .mov files directly to a web browser.
> > Depending on the system setup you never know what plugin or other app
will
> > try to open the file. The OBJECT tag makes sure QuickTime will open them
on
> > Windows/IE and that if QuickTime is not installed it will get
autodownloaded
> > and installed (if user concents). The nested EMBED tag means that if
browser
> > doesn't support the OBJECT tag (e.g. IE/Mac, or Netscape/Windows or
other
> > Mac browser) a plugin will be searched that supports the MIME type of
the
> > QuickTime movies (see Apple site for what that is, maybe it's
> > "quicktime/movie" or something). Your server must be set up to serve the
> > correct MIME type for those files. If no plugin is intalled at the
client
> > browser to handle that MIME type, the EMBED tag has a download page URL
that
> > the browser will use to prompt the user to go get the QuickTime plugin
> > (they'll have to download it, install it, close the web browser and open
it
> > again, much worse scenario than the OBJECT tag pattern). Some browsers
(like
> > IE/Win) don't really need MIME settings at the web server, they can use
the
> > file extension of the files. However the OBJECT tag makes sure that
Windows
> > Media Player or other app won't open the files and that QuickTime can be
> > autodownloaded if not already installed (on Win there's a good chance
> > QuickTime isn't already installed at the client)
> >
> > sorry for the long text,
> > cheers,
> > George
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > George Birbilis <email@hidden>
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> >
> > > I tried pulling the VR manually in the URL but it is not coming up.
But
> > > here it is not coming as a red X though. It comes with the qtvr that
> > > blue round thing and then browser just wouldn't stop. I have to stop
> > > the browser manually but it doesn't bring the image though.
> > >
> > > Gita
> > >
> > > Roger Howard wrote:
> > >
> > > > First try pulling the VR manually via the URL stored iin the
> > > > database... also, I don't see why PHP needs a larger file size limit
> > > > if you're not storing the VR in MySQL (or generating it in PHP) -
> > > > you're just passing URLs around, so if there's a problem it's with
the
> > > > URL you're building (easy to check) or with your Web server not
> > > > handling the .mov right.
> > > >
> > > > -R
> > > >
> > > > On Mar 18, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Geetha Kutikkad wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Actually I am storing the files in a file folder, only the file
path
> > > >> in the database. Sorry I missed to mention that.
> > > >>
> > > >> Gita
> > > >>
> > > >> Roger Howard wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Mar 17, 2004, at 7:19 PM, Geetha Kutikkad wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> Hi:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I am storing qtvr object movies in mysql using php. But it is
not
> > > >>>> retrieving the files for display. It is working fine jpg/gif
files,
> > > >>>> only qtvr files not working. I did set the permissions to 755
and
> > > >>>> changed the max-file-size in the php.ini file to 24M. But it
still
> > > >>>> it comes as red X only. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Have you tried dumping one of the stored VRs back to a file and
> > > >>> comparing it with the VR you put in?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> -R
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