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Re: Windows Quicktime

On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Meyer, Mark wrote:
I'm trying to make a video on demand server on our campus. It works for all
of our Mac machines, but the Windows machines keep trying to use Real One.
Is there some kind of Tag I can put on the links to the Videos to force the
Windows machines to use Quicktime instead. If I open the quicktime player
on the Windows machines and then open the Video files they work fine but I
need to link to those files on a website.

The problem is that you likely aren't embedding the QuickTime movie object correctly in your HTML, and thus the raw "rtsp" url on your windows machines is being directed to the real player plugin.

What you need to do to achieve cross-platform compatibility so that your rtsp QuickTime urls work is by creating the appropriate QuickTime embed/object html tags, and creating a QuickTime reference movie - which in turn contains the rtsp URL.

Check around on Apple's QuickTime website and you'll find url's like this in the developer area

   http://www.info.apple.com/usen/quicktime/
   http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/compatibility.html
   http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html

And finally, make sure you read the following regarding Internet Explorer on Windows and the QuickTime Plugin:

       http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/compatibility.html

Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 and 6.0 with QuickTime

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR QUICKTIME USERS


NOTE: THIS ISSUE AFFECTS ONLY USERS OF INTERNET EXPLORER ON WINDOWS.
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, versions 5.5 SP2 and 6.0
(soon to be released) no longer support Netscape-style plug-ins, such
as the plug-in installed as part of QuickTime 5.0.2 and earlier
versions. Consequently, Windows customers using these versions of
Explorer may be unable to view QuickTime content in the browser. Mac
users and Netscape users are unaffected.

To restore compatibility, Apple has provided an ActiveX control.
Please visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime where you will be prompted
to download and install this control if you do not already have it.

[snip]

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Billy Brown
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