Thanks for the comments, Neil. I can include the player controller to give access to full screen mode. I am loath to involve another server, no positive reason, just a wish to be as self-contained as possible. On 27 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 “full-screen” the video – I always > “full-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-pen-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 wife’s 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> > > > -- 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> ____________________________________________________ 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] ____________________________________________________
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