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mattmarshall · Dec 9, 2003, 04:21 PM

hey people

i just posted a short video i made as a QT movie on my web site (http://www.matthewmarshall.net)

when you go to the page, however, there's no loading indicator--you just stare at the Q untilt he file loads. (it's 1.2 megs).

is there anyway to give my visitors feedback, so they know it's loading? currently, it feels like nothing is happening.

thank you so much

- matt

philzilla · Dec 9, 2003, 04:32 PM

try adding about 20 pixels onto the height of the movie in the embed tags, and you should get the bar with controls, progress bar, etc.

mattmarshall · Dec 9, 2003, 04:49 PM

hey

thanks, but i didn't define it by pixels, i did percentage. i can see the controls after it loads. however, until it loads fully, it gives no feedback--the giant Q just sits. it even says "done" in safari's status bar, even though if you wait you can see that it has been loading the file.

it's a .mov exported from FC Express with the "web" option.

- matt

philzilla · Dec 9, 2003, 05:02 PM

i dunno then. hell, i don't even think i've embedded any quicktime since the last time they changed how you do it. heh.

try specifying pixels, for a laugh.

rozwado1 · Sep 6, 2004, 04:55 PM

BUMP.

I have the same question. How do you get the QT movie to show the loading bar? Mine has just has the Q until it fully loads, then it will show the movie with the progress bar. I want it to behave like Apple's QT files they host. I tried copying their code but it still won't work.

Mithras · Sep 11, 2004, 02:01 PM

You do need to save the QT file with http streaming enabled, yes? Maybe that's always done these days, I dunno. But I remember specifically enabling it years ago.

splatq · Sep 14, 2004, 12:24 PM

Here's what I used on a web site. It's a pop-up window, but otherwise it should work by copying the code. As for the Apple-styled Quicktime movies, remember to create a single frame Quicktime movie (named below as "Quicktime-Frame.mp4"). If you set CONTROLLER=TRUE, it should be what you're looking for. This particular code was for a movie sized 640 x 480. Anyway, hope this helps. Sorry for the word wrapping.

Code:
<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?>
<!-- media filename below -->
<?php define("FILE_NAME", "/media/movies/quartz.mp4"); ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>..:: splatq media ::..</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="/sqStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<div align="center">
  <table width="640" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td height="496" width="640"><OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="640"HEIGHT="496" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0">
 
 <PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="/media/movies/Quicktime-Frame.mp4">
 <PARAM name="HREF" VALUE="http://www.splatq.com/<?php echo FILE_NAME; ?>">
 <param name="autoplay" value="true" />
 <param name="cache" value="true" />
 <param name="controller" value="false" />
 <PARAM name="pluginspage" VALUE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />
 <PARAM name="target" VALUE="myself">
 <PARAM name="type" VALUE="video/quicktime">
 
  <EMBED SRC ="/media/movies/Quicktime-Frame.mp4" href="http://www.splatq.com/<?php echo FILE_NAME; ?>" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" target="myself" WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=496 CONTROLLER="false" AUTOPLAY="true" border="0" cache="true">
  </embed>
</OBJECT></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="640" height="20" align="center" valign="middle" class="smallText"> 
        <div align="center"><a href="javascript:window.close();">close window</a> || <a href="<?php echo FILE_NAME; ?>">download movie</a></div></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
</body>
</html>