Re: Dowload
Re: Dowload
- Subject: Re: Dowload
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:13:26 -0400
On Apr 26, 2004, at 8:40 AM, Lorenzo wrote:
Yesterday it tried to download a movie file (.mov) unsuccessfully. The
file
seemed to be less than 10KB. Instead the file .mov on the web site is
really
5MB (!).
QuickTime can use a "Reference Movie" - a movie that contains nothing
but references to other movies. Each alternate is targeted at a
specific bandwidth, and the one that matches your current QT settings
is loaded. It's fairly common, so it might be the case here.
Take a look at the HTML that points at the movie - if it points to
something like movie_ref.mov, then it's almost certainly a reference
movie. You might also have a look at the movie as saved from Safari -
it's very common to name the alternates according to bandwidth, so if
it's named something like movie_56k.mov or movie_lan.mov, then it's
almost certain.
Should I use WebKit?
If a downloaded movie is a reference movie, you could use the QT API to
open it, find the alternate movies it points to, and get the QT
settings to decide which one of them to download.
See:
<
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/
datarate4.html>
sherm--
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