RE: ---------- >From: Andreas Gaunitz P11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: <lingo-l> Oh my... QT in shockwave >Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 3:57 AM
>I've been trying to play (stream) Quicktime movies in a shockwave >movie for 2 days. I can't get them to play. I've tried most things I >can imagine among others: >Symptoms: >Some movs show only the first frame but don't play. Movs don't show >at all. Movs show only a white square. > >Platform: >QT 5, D8.5, Mac, IE5, Netscace 4.7, sorensson. ------------ If you are testing locally, make sure everything's in a "dswmedia" folder as per your Director documentation. Also, the data rate of the QuickTime movies is probably way too high when you try to run the video over a web connection. What is the average data rate of the QuickTime movies you are using? You can find this by opening the "movie info" dialog in QuickTime Player Pro. For a video clip to "stream" (start playing right away) over a 56k dialup connection, it would have to have an overall data rate of around 3.5 - 4.0 KBytes/sec (that's video AND sound). Getting it that low takes a compression application like "Cleaner" and some real skill. By contrast, an ordinary DV format video clip (that you'd play on a TV set) has a data rate of around 3.5 MB/sec! That means if you try to "stream" a video clip at that data rate over a 56k modem connection, you have about a thousand times too much data. You can't really get around that obstacle with a few lines of Lingo - you need to do some work on the video clips themselves first. So you need to have the data rate way down, but still retain as much image quality as possible. You can do this with QT Player Pro or any number of video editing applications, but Cleaner (formerly owned by Terran, now Discreet) is much better. ------------ >Do you happen to know where to find a simple turtorial of how to stream QT!?! ----------- MM has various technotes on that. For just the QT part, the book "QuickTime For The Web" is a very good reference. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
