OK, here's the deal. I am trying to embed a movie in a web page and have it autoplay. It's a .mov file with MP4 encoding, but I don't think it matters because if I recall I had encoded with Sorenson 3 and it still didn't work properly.
What happens is that I get the QuickTime logo on white and I never see the movie controller or any part of the movie whatsoever until the movie is COMPLETELY loaded. Which I don't understand. I have stolen the code directly from Apple's QT Trailers site, I've written it myself, I've used GoLive's, I've gone to Apple's QT Developer docs and it still doesn't work. So I think any code problems are ruled out.
While at the QT Dev's site I noticed that it said that once it determined that it could play the movie without stopping again, it would do so, if autoplay was set to true. Which is what happened with the Finding Nemo trailer (large) after it was about 3/4 through. The trailer happens to be the same size as my movie, and it is even shorter. The clip I am using is 9 minutes long (it's highly compressed). Akamai's servers are faster but it also has to completely load when I load it locally.
Now does anyone know what's up? Is the movie itself not correct? I even went to the properties and set it to autoplay. Is there some sort of server side problem?
Thanks for any help
P.S.
Here's the link in question. I've also tried the <object><embed></object> convention as well, it didn't work either.
Edit: I want to mention if it's not already obvious that I have a fairly standard Apache installation on OS X Client.
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