|
|
Posted by dorayme on 12/03/07 19:40
In article <slrnfl8hdr.lnl.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
> On 2007-12-03, Jonathan N. Little <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> > Shelly wrote:
> >> Dylan Parry wrote:
> >>> rf wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Is it possible to have a .mov file on a site and have it played in a
> >>>>> browser where the user does not have Quicktime installed?
> >>>> Is it possible to watch a TV movie when I don't have a TV?
> >>> Yes, using a receiver and a projector ;) Likewise, one can view
> >>> Quicktime files if one has suitable codecs installed or an alternative
> >>> media player - for example, I don't have Quicktime installed, but I do
> >>> have codecs that let me view such files in Windows Media Player.
> >
> > I have QuicktimeAlternative open source...
> >>
> >> I phrased it badly. What I meant to ask was "Is there something **I can
> >> install on the server** so that .mov files on the server that are included
> >> in a web page will play on the user's browser even if he doesn't have
> >> Quicktime on his machine.
> >
> > No. The client must be configured to view ".mov" in some way such as
> > with any other proprietary file format...
>
> Can't you do something with content negotiation?
>
> If the client doesn't say it accepts whatever media type .mov files are,
> then the server can perhaps be set up to give it the same movie but as
> another kind of file instead (.avi, .mpeg, etc.)?
Indeed this is good advice. So many folks on Windows simply
cannot see .mov movies, I had a case of a woman the other day
saying she heard the soundtrack but not the visual of some film I
made. She was half way there in her "content-negotiation"!
The other thing I have done is give an explicit link with some
blah about QT being free, to download and install the QT player.
--
dorayme
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|