Thread-topic: Storing qtvr objects in mysql using php
I am using the <EMBED> tag inside the <OBJECT> tag as explained by Marqus Altendroff in one of his replies to my posting and now it is working fine. Now the only issue is with the browsers displaying it. If I use auto for the height and width then the image is not at all displayed by IE. And as for Netscape it is not displaying the image fully no matter what the value I set for the height and width. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
Gita
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From: email@hidden on behalf of George Birbilis
Sent: Sun 3/28/2004 2:25 PM
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Subject: Fw: Storing qtvr objects in mysql using php
> <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
>
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> 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
> >
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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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