QUICKTIME LINKING

- This technique opens the movie in QT player

Create a text file (Mac users can use Text Edit or BBedit, and Windows users can use Notepad) and include the following link:


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>
<embed src="rtsp://quick.iFactorystream.net/account/filename.mov" autoplay="true" />

The parameters you personalize are in bold:

Account is the account name we give you when you purchase your streaming account and filename.mov is the name of your .mov file saved on the streaming server.

The file must be saved with the .qtl extension with no spaces. and saved to your WEB SERVER not your streaming server.

Now in your html page you can make a simple href to the file you have just created. When a user clicks the link the browser will open QT Player and play the clip.

.qtl files are so small they can be easily sent by e-mail too as an invite to your audience.



Linking With tag <OBJECT>
- This technique embeds the movie in your web page

tag <OBJECT> allows you to incorporate a link to a clip directly in the html page, using a .mov metafile.

Phase 1
Create a .mov metafile as done for the .qtl (see instruction above) but with the following text instead:

rtsptext rtsp://quick.iFactorystream.net/account/filename.mov

The parameters that you need to personalise are in bold:

Account is the account name we give you when you purchase your streaming account, and filename.mov is the name of your QT file saved on the streaming server.

The file must be saved with the .mov extension with no spaces and saved to your WEB SERVER not your streaming server.

Phase 2
Copy and paste the following code in the area of your web page where you intend the clip to be viewed:

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="src" VALUE="filename.mov">
<PARAM name="autoplay" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="controller" VALUE="true">
<EMBED
TYPE="video/quicktime"
SRC="filename.mov"
WIDTH="320"
HEIGHT="240"
AUTOPLAY="true"
CONTROLLER="true">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

The paramaters that you need to personalise are in bold:

WIDTH e HEIGHT specify the pixel dimension of the clip;
VALUE e SRC= specify the .mov metafile file saved on the web server;
AUTOPLAY="true" starts the clip automatically; with AUTOPLAY="false" the clip appears in pause mode;
SHOWCONTROLS="true" enables the player controls to be visible
SHOWCONTROLS="false" hides the player controls

If you choose SHOWCONTROLS="1" it is necessary to increase the Height value by 16 in order to enable the player controls to be visible and avoid distorsion of the video.

STREAMING VIDEO