the most relevant reason, as mentioned many times by josh, is Internet Explorers inability to handle progressive (fast start) download/playback of quicktime media in a browser unless the Quicktime player browser plugin (embed code) is used.

Also, opening a new window is clunkier than opening a size-constrained popup window that can be forced to top-left of screen accordingly.

btw, though i dont think this is the best embed code generator anymore.... but it's been up for almost a year here:
http://videobloggers.org/embedmedia/
just an fyi... so you can choose freevideocode.com, embedthevideo.com or whatever else is out there.

you'll be seeing new solutions and plugins becoming available over next few months, i'm sure.




On 2/10/06, B Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote:

> I just never got around to adding in support for SWF.
> It would just be a matter of adding that code to the PHP popup file
> which you can download from my site and ru on your own server if you
> wish:
> < http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/archives/2006/02/
> get_your_video.php >
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> If someone wanted to contribute these changes back to me, I'd
> appreciate it very much.
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> As for customizing the size of the player and window... that code is
> actually hidden in the file. It defaults to 320x240, but you can pass
> in height and width parameters from the URL query string... of course
> you'd also need to set the size of the popup window a little larger
> too from the _javascript_ onclick handler.
>
> If you're slightly code-savvy this should be really easy...

I'm not understanding something..

What's the difference between your code:

<a href="" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-">http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-
AndyMcMillinTT83BITD06Parker425Race221.m4v" title="test"
rel="enclosure" href="">http://embedthevideo.com/
popup.php?
url=''video','width=350,height=286,top=20,left=20,scrollbars=
no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=
yes,left=0,top=0');return false;"><img src="">photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6909/1319/320/amcmillin1.jpg" alt="test"
border="0" class="thumbnail" /></a>
<br /><a href="" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-">http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-
AndyMcMillinTT83BITD06Parker425Race221.m4v ">click here to download</
a><br />

& just a basic "open the video in a new browser window" using <a
href="" target="_blank">video.jpg</a>:

<a href="" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-">http://blip.tv/file/get/Jumplive-
AndyMcMillinTT83BITD06Parker425Race221.m4v" target="_blank" rel=
"enclosure"><img src="" http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/
6909/1319/320/amcmillin1.jpg"></a>

[ the above is one of the implementations at http://
www.freevideocoding.com/, "link to Player" ]

Don't both of them accomplish getting the video opened up in a new
pop-up browser window?


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> -Josh
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> On 2/9/06, Stan Hirson,  Sarah Jones < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've experimented with your popup and I like it very much.  I used it
>> with QuickTime files.  I seem to remember reading somewhere that you
>> had been thinking of a similar app for .swf files.  Is that true?
>>
>> Also, how hard would it be to change the size of the popup
>> window?  Is
>> it just a matter of changing the html code when I paste it? I have
>> been trying out a similar code generator for Flix Pro from On2.  That
>> takes the image size as an input variable.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stan
>>
>>
>> --- In [email protected], Joshua Kinberg
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>>>
>>> If you embed the videos in the blog entries, then you also need to
>>> provide a direct link to the video file in order to use a service
>>> like
>>> FeedBurner to create enclosures.
>>>
>>> This is why the video popup method is good. It preserves the direct
>>> link to the video for FeedBurner, but also gives an embedded video
>>> solution for playback in the browser (including IE, which requires
>>> embedded video playback).
>>>
>>> -Josh
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