Well, I spoke too fast. There are a few more issues with playing videos
in a QT player when the videos are stored on a server.
1. The only reliable way to have these videos play is to save them with
hinted streaming turned on. Without that, some will play; others lock
the revlet up. Standard 30 fps videos seem to play fine. Higher frame
rate videos lock the revlet (and the browser) up completely. But when I
saved these same videos with hinted streaming turned on, they played
fine in the browser.
2. Secondly... and this can drive folks nuts... the same bug that was
present in earlier versions of Rev is still present.
If you set the filename of a QT player to a remotely-stored video, the
player plays fine. BUT, if you try to set that same player to a
different video, it will fail. This has always been the case. The trick
is to delete the player, create a new one, then set it to the new filename.
Richard
Richard Miller wrote:
Solved the first item. In other versions of Rev, it works fine to set
the filename of a quicktime player to something of the form,
"ftp://....";. Doing so in a revlet will lock everything up. But when I
switched to "http://... ", all worked fine. Streaming begins and the
video plays fine.
I'd still like to hear thoughts on the YouTube item, though.
Thanks.
Richard
Richard Miller wrote:
Two questions.
I am trying to set the filename of a quicktime player to a video
stored on a remote server, but there appears to be a bug in this
functionality. I see the first frame of the video, but the revlet
locks up thereafter (along with the entire browser). Works fine in
the development environment. Works fine in a standalone (i.e. earlier
versions of Rev). Is this a known bug? Setting the filename of a
player to a local file also works fine while running a revlet. I've
only tested this in Firefox on a PC under XP.
In the past, setting a quicktime player to view a remotely-stored
video would cause the player to start streaming the video
immediately... even if the video wasn't set up specifically to stream
or stored on a streaming server. Nice feature.
Secondly, any ideas on how to show a YouTube video in a revlet?
Thanks.
Richard Miller
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