Hi Sev, I watch a lot of streaming video on a variety of sites. My first impressions:
* In either firefox or safari, clicking the QT preview image opens another small window to play the movie in why do this, why not embed whatever player you use directly in the page? * With either browser there is no option to ³full-screen² the video I always ³full-screen any video I think is worth watching! * A lot of quite large websites use either YouTube or Vimeo to present videos. The video is hosted on their website and you embed the YouTube or Vimeo player in your website (eg where the QT preview icon is currently. Some examples (which all allow expanding the video to full-screen): > * The vine (Fairfax media) often uses YouTube: > <http://www.thevine.com.au/video> > * Kickstarter often includes both own hosted and Vimeo video, eg > <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1171695627/polar-pen-both-tool-and-toy-p > en-stylus-made-from-m> has the main video self-hosted but has a Vimeo video on > the pen features further down the page. Just my 2c worth. I must admit, after enjoying nice streaming full-screen video, I find small video windows very unsatisfying ;o) One of the things I did when designing a few webpages was to note any sites/pages that did something in a way I particularly liked and then check out the page code to see how they were doing it picked up a few good ideas that way ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] on 27/2/14 13:32, Severin Crisp at [email protected] wrote: > My wife¹s website, which I manage, has among other things number of streaming > movies running for up to 9mins. I have recently noticed that there is a vast > difference between the startup time on different browsers. In summary I > note:- > Safari fine > Firefox very slow > Chrome very very slow indeed > IE (running Windows XP with Fusion) fine! > The movies (mostly) are in .mov format, frame size 400 x 300, audio mono and > compressed, video compression H264 and saved to fast start for streaming with > compressed header. > > The latest one, which has prompted this query, can be seen at:- > http://www.jennycrisp.com.au/stream.html > > I would appreciate comments on the general strategy of posting streaming > movies within a webpage. > Severin Crisp > ____________________________________________________ > > Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia > ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > mail to: [email protected] > ____________________________________________________ > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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