Ok ... I've been experimenting more and it appears that the .htaccess file in the inspiredhealing.tv godaddy account does not work for redirects either, so it appears to be something wrong with my use of .htaccess in this account as compred to the other where I got it to work.
... so, well, I don't know? On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I tried the .htaccess thing with both versions and it didn't seem to work. > > For the record I have used .htaccess sucessfully in the past for > redirecting and also, for the record, using dreamweaver the files with a "." > do show up, maybe something special about dreamweaver on the mac. > > I did learn, in my previous use of .htaccess that I have to set the line > break thingy in dreamweaver to unix and I had to have one blank line at the > bottom of the file, but it still didn't seem to work. > > When I say it doesn't seem to work I mean that it still doesn't play in > another window and it still doesn't show up in iTunes. > > Also, I put the file at the root level of the web account. > > Also, I did this sucessfully with another godaddy hosting account, not > this one, but I would think they woudl work the same. > > ... other ideas anybody? > > ... Richard > > On 11/24/06, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey Richard, > > It looks like the server is not returning the correct mime type for mp4 > > files. You can try adding a line to your .htaccess file to change that. > > Since anything with a "." at the beginning of the file name is invisible on > > a mac you'll have to duplicate the file on your server, remove the period > > and then download the file. Open it in a text editor, add this line, > > "AddType video/mp4 .mp4" (without the quotes), save the file, upload it, > > delete the .htaccess file and then rename the new htaccess file to > > .htaccess. > > If for some reason that doesn't work you might have to try "AddType > > video/x-mp4 .mp4" > > I'm not 100% sure about that. Anyone know any better? > > > > Also, Apple recently changed something about what files will play on > > iPods (again) and there is a "optimize for..." dropdown in the mp4 > > compression panel that need to be set to "streaming" now in order to be > > compatible with an iPod. I have it documented on the Alive in Baghdad wiki > > (haven't done it for Freevlog yet). You can find that at: > > http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format#4iPodCompression > > > > > > Let us all know if this works or not - this is always a pain in the butt > > problem. > > > > -Verdi > > > > On 11/24/06, Richard (Show) Hall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The quicktime video from this post is not showing up in iTunes > > > > > > http://inspiredhealing.tv/?p=9 > > > > > > One thing we did differently was use Verdi's method of compressing the > > > file to create a mp4 file, so the suffix is mp4 and I'm not sure if that > > > is > > > the problem. > > > > > > The feed is > > > > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/inspiredhealing > > > > > > and the correct post shows up at the top of the feed. > > > > > > Also, when I click on the mp4 file it does not automatically start > > > playing in another page in fireant like .mov files normally do. > > > > > > Any help appreciated, as alway. > > > > > > ... Richard > > > > > > -- > > > http://richardhhall.org > > > http://richardshow.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://michaelverdi.com > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org & http://node101.org > > Community Capitalism: http://havemoneywillvlog.com > > Machinima: http://whenwewererobots.com > > > > > -- > http://richardhhall.org > http://richardshow.com > -- http://richardhhall.org http://richardshow.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
