Hi Severin & Neil, I have played Jenny's 'brilliant' - The Stream - on my iPad, and on my MacBook Pro in both Safari & Firefox. All three can play in 'Full Screen' Neil... once the Quicktime Movie opens & begins download - click the arrows (at the bottom right, in the timeline - play/pause control).
Severin... the great soundtrack brought back many happy memories; and I need to find some time to search through my old vinyl records. I have the original 1978 soundtrack of 'The War Of The Worlds'... I purchased as soon as it was released ;-) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 27 Feb 2014, at 3:33 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >>> ____________________________________________________ >>>
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