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Re: Re2: start a streaming movie half-way



The only thing I've seen that comes close to this is chapter tracks, and I can't even get that to work in a streaming movie. The instructions I found were for Quicktime 4 or 5, so they were a little hard to follow.

I do know that what you're describing is possible. There's a company called Virage that does this, for QuickTime, Real and WiMP, but I don't know what their method is. They're apparently creating some kind of index track so that the server can start streaming at any indexed point in the movie, then they put that information in a database with keywords so you can retrieve video clips by keywords.

I had thought that chapter tracks would be one way of doing this, but I couldn't get it to work and couldn't find any recent documentation, so I gave up.

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:47  AM, Olivier Van Acker wrote:

Thanx for the answer, but it's not quite what i'm looking for
I'm trying to build a simple video editing tool embedded in a browser.
Users click a begin and end point in several movies, a javascript stores this in a input text box and after the user click the save button these points are stored in a database.
If the resulting movie is recalled a php script reads the entries from the database and generates a smil file which show the several movie parts behind each other, so manual editing with qt pro or livestage is not an optoin :-(


Greetings,

Olivier

On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 16:17 Europe/Amsterdam, George Cook wrote:

Oliver:

There is a simple way to do this that only requires QuickTime Pro. Open up your MP4 stream using QuickTime Player. Select the segment of the stream you are interested in. Select Edit->Copy. Create a new movie and Paste. Then save this as a self-contained QuickTime movie. This reference movie will contain play your the segment of your MP4 stream that you copied and pasted. You can embed this ref movie on your web page like any other QuickTime movie.

-George

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:03 AM, email@hidden wrote:

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:08:43 +0100
Subject: start a streaming movie half-way
From: Olivier Van Acker <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden

Hello,

I've got several hinted mp4 movies exported with QT pro and I only want
to show small parts off it.


So I set up a Quicktime Streaming Server and produced this SMIL:

.... (head, layout and region here)....
<body>
	<seq>
		<video src="rtsp://192.168.1.5/end.mov"; clipBegin="5 sec"
clipEnd="00:00:07.00" region="r1" />
	</seq>
</body>
</smil>

As you can see the movie has to start 5 seconds after the beginning.
But so far every time I try this smil the movie just starts from the
beginning. The apple documentation about smil even gives an example
with this feature (clipBegin: smil 2.0 or clip-begin: smil 1.0) but it
just doesn't work.
I was wondering if I have to tweak the QSS configuration file for this
feature to start working, or maybe it's something else...
Any help would be greatly appreciated,




Olivier

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