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Quicktime 7: Where's Fast Start?
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Ok, a video I uploaded won't play when it continues to download. Instead, it will wait for the whole video to finish until it can be played in the browser. In quicktime 6, all I had to do was open the video, press command+j, check auto-play, and save as full movie. How do I do the same in Quicktime 7? I can't find the "auto-play" thing at all.
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I do believe the auto-play was a red herring. Saving as a self-contained movie (from QTPlayer) does something called "flattening" the movie, and saving the file in any other way "unflattens" it. Flattened movies always play as-they-download in my experience, and unflattened ones never do. But I don't do a lot of web auhoring, so give that a try and let us know if I'm full of it.
Also, I think auto-play is now called "Automatically play movie when opened" and is still in cmd-j under Presentation.
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What you are talking about is progressive download, not auto-play. The auto-play flag tells the player to play the file when it opened. If the file is saved for progressive download (which AFAIK is enabled by default in QT 7 with some codecs) the movie starts playing _while_ it is loading. There are some problems with some codecs (H.264, pixlet) in conjunction with the progressive download flag.
So telling a movie to auto-play does not mean it starts playing while it is dowloading.
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Edit: OK, its called "fast start". Open a QT-Movie, select "Export...", select "Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie, click "Options", choose your Video/Audio codec and check the "Prepare for Internet Streaming" box. Then select "Fast Start" Thats it.
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(Last edited by Nexus5; Jul 16, 2005 at 01:08 PM.
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But how do I do it to a video that I already exported but without having it checked? In 6 I could just do what I mentioned above. Is this a problem with Quicktime 7?
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please try simply opening and re-saving as a new self-contained file. I have a strong suspicion that "prepare for internet streaming" and "fast start" in the export dialog (from various versions of QT) merely do this flattening all in one step (whereas normally an export would produce an unflattened file).
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I did a save as without clicking anything and it seems to have taken care of it automatically.
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