how to stream .mov files

mb72378

mb72378

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I am wanting to stream my quicktime movies off my website but when you access the webpage it sits with the quicktime icon unitl the whole thing is loaded. I don't have quicktime pro, is there any other way I can make my files ready so that they can be streamed and played while loading. Thanks
 
hi, without a dedicated streaming server your QT movs are going to be pushed out as "progressive downloads" ie buffering and when a certain amount of data has been downloaded or buffered the mov starts playing. either that or you can set properties to have the whole mov loaded before it start playing. to have true web streaming you need to set up a dedicated streaming server or let your files be hosted by companies like Akamai.

simple commands to control QT:

http://www.edvista.com/claire/qt/embedtags/index.html

additional info on progressive download:

http://dowire.org/wiki/Streaming_vs_Progressive_Download

http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=8456&page=1

http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/media_delivery.html

a solution for more control is to have the whole movie loaded in a flash file that has an interface for buffering, playing back, start, stop etc. i'm sure there are other options too.

Matt
 
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If you're trying to stream video over the web, Flash video 8 (On2 VP6 Codec) will always be faster to stream (without a streaming server), more compatible, and generally have less headaches when trying to show your video.

Quicktime is a codec used only for Editing, and long term storage. Only use Quicktime to publish your video if your client you're trying to show the video off to is still stuck in Mac OS 9 world. (OS9 has no support for flash video, because adobe doesn't update Flash on OS9)
 
Hello,
is the .mov to .fl conversion done in flash and the :

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="36" width="1024">
<param name="movie" value="whatever.mov" />
<param name="quality" value="best" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed height="36" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="whatever.mov" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1024" quality="best" play="true">

Will this triggera streaming video.

Thanks

 
The reason you are having that problem is because you aren't checking the option during encoding your quicktime files for fast start. If you don't check it then the entire video has to load first then it play versus starting and loading while playing. I ran into that problem with my video files on my website and had to re-encode all of them to fix it.
 
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