From: George Cook <email@hidden>
Date: Fri Nov 22, 2002 1:56:25 PM America/Los_Angeles
To: email@hidden
Cc: Jim Jones <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: reference movies.
Jim:
The easiest way to create a reference movie is with QuickTime Pro:
1. Open QuickTime Player Pro.
2. Select File->Open URL. Enter rtsp://<server>/<path>/<moviename>. For
example, if your movie was named polarbear.mov in the document root of
your streaming server and your server's address was streaming.uaf.edu,
you'd use the url:
rtsp://streaming.uaf.edu/polarbear.mov
3. Select File->Save (this is why you need QuickTime Pro). Save the
file as "self-contained." The small file this generates is a reference
movie to your stream.
4. Wherever you open the reference movie, it will connect to your
streaming server and open the stream. You can put the reference movie
on a web server and use the OBJECT/EMBED tag to add it to a web page.
You can also e-mail it to someone, or put it in Macromedia Director -
whatever. When QuickTime opens the movie, it will open a connection to
the server and stream the movie.
Another way to embed a stream on a web page is to use the href or qtsrc
parameters in the embed tag. You can embed any file QuickTime
understands and use href or qtsrc to open the actual stream. The
enclosed "watchnow.qtif" file can be used this way. For example, if you
want a user to click on the graphic and have the stream open in
QuickTime Player:
1. Place the enclosed watchnow.qtif file on your web server
2. In the same directory create a web page with an OBJECT/EMBED tag
that uses the href parameter to open the stream. Using the example from
above, the tag might look something like:
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"; height="20"
width="120">
<param name="target" value="quicktimeplayer">
<param name="href" value="rtsp://streaming.uaf.edu/polarbear.mov";>
<param name="src" value="watchnow.qtif">
<param name="autoplay" value="false">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<embed height="20"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/";
src="watchnow.qtif" type="video/quicktime" width="120"
controller="false" autoplay="false" href=
"rtsp://streaming.uaf.edu/polarbear.mov"; target="quicktimeplayer">
</object>
I highly recommend the book QuickTime for the Web
(http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-780-3) which
describes QuickTime/web integration in detail. The book includes a CD
with lots of useful tools and content you can use to enhance your
QuickTime enabled web site. It describes a number of other ways to
embed streaming movies on web pages.
-George
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:20:35 -0900
To: email@hidden
From: Jim Jones <email@hidden>
Subject: reference movies.
Hello,
Does anyone have a step by step process for creating reference
movies. This newbie is trying to do so and failing. Any help would
be
appreciated.
I have been to apples web page. I figure that I just missing a step
or two.
jim jones
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