[MacDV] Re: Quicktime problem

[Mark M. Florida]

On 5/7/03 7:16 PM, "Robert Schoenburg" <rschoenburg at schoenburg.com> wrote:

> I will try again. Thanks Mark. I did try something like that with no luck.
> Interesting that Netscape and Safari open it with no problem.

Do you mean Netscape and Safari open the movie if you drag it into a browser
window when the movie is on your hard drive?  That should work fine, since
your computer knows what kind of file it is and is able to call on the
QuickTime plugin to handle it.  But a web server has to know a file-type
(MIME) mapping for a ".mov" file (video/quicktime), and if it's not
programmed in the server, it will spit back the generic binary format
"application/octet-stream", which can cause problems in some situations (as
you've seen for yourself).

Hope that helps some more.  ;-)

- Mark

> 
> 
>> That usually has to do with MIME type mappings on the web server.  Usually
>> if you ask the hosting provider to add a MIME type for you it shouldn't be a
>> problem.  You should also be able to add the MIME information if you embed
>> the QuickTime movie in it's own HTML page, rather than linking to it
>> directly.
>> 
>> Here's a sample embed tag you can use as a reference:
>> 
>> <embed width="320" height="256"
>> pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
>> src="path/to/quicktime.mov" type="video/quicktime" controller="true"
>> autoplay="true">
>> 
>> Note:  if you have the "controller" attribute set to "true" then you need to
>> add 16 pixels to the height of the movie to make room for the controller
>> without causing the movie to lose proportion.
>> 
>> There's more info on embedding QuickTime movies on web pages on Apple's
>> site.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> - Mark
>> 
>> On 5/7/03 10:06 AM, "Robert Schoenburg" <rschoenburg at schoenburg.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I uploaded a QT movie and a web page. The page has a link to the movie. When
>>> the page loads, the following message is displayed:
>>> 
>>> The Plug-in for application/octet-stream is not installed
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Anyone have a clue as to what this is?
>>> 
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