Re: lingo-l Oh my... QT in shockwave
Put them as bare files in same root as the www-page startup. (Starts to search from there..if not said path..). The authoring and real use are two different styles in reactions. Have that in mind. You're not getting what you see in shipping it to web. DCR-way is a bit young yet... Makes it easier to investigate from there, hopefully. + Quoting Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear list, I've been trying to play (stream) Quicktime movies in a shockwave movie for 2 days. I can't get them to play. I've tried most things I can imagine among others: - Just put them on stage - Import small referrence movies instead of the real ones, then put the dcr on server (I don't know why but I read about it in a Technote) - start with movie paused, allow some time, then make it play - preloadNetThing, then set member.filename to the preloaded thing. This is the most successful technique so far, but it's difficult to use with the sprite layout of the project (that I didn't invent) and I want them to stream, not download first... - etc Symptoms: Some movs show only the first frame but don't play. Movs don't show at all. Movs show only a white square. - FREE E-MAIL IN 1 MINUTE! - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.pc.nu [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Oh my... QT in shockwave
RE: -- From: Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Oh my... QT in shockwave Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 3:57 AM I've been trying to play (stream) Quicktime movies in a shockwave movie for 2 days. I can't get them to play. I've tried most things I can imagine among others: Symptoms: Some movs show only the first frame but don't play. Movs don't show at all. Movs show only a white square. Platform: QT 5, D8.5, Mac, IE5, Netscace 4.7, sorensson. If you are testing locally, make sure everything's in a dswmedia folder as per your Director documentation. Also, the data rate of the QuickTime movies is probably way too high when you try to run the video over a web connection. What is the average data rate of the QuickTime movies you are using? You can find this by opening the movie info dialog in QuickTime Player Pro. For a video clip to stream (start playing right away) over a 56k dialup connection, it would have to have an overall data rate of around 3.5 - 4.0 KBytes/sec (that's video AND sound). Getting it that low takes a compression application like Cleaner and some real skill. By contrast, an ordinary DV format video clip (that you'd play on a TV set) has a data rate of around 3.5 MB/sec! That means if you try to stream a video clip at that data rate over a 56k modem connection, you have about a thousand times too much data. You can't really get around that obstacle with a few lines of Lingo - you need to do some work on the video clips themselves first. So you need to have the data rate way down, but still retain as much image quality as possible. You can do this with QT Player Pro or any number of video editing applications, but Cleaner (formerly owned by Terran, now Discreet) is much better. Do you happen to know where to find a simple turtorial of how to stream QT!?! --- MM has various technotes on that. For just the QT part, the book QuickTime For The Web is a very good reference. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Oh my... QT in shockwave
From: Andreas Gaunitz P11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been trying to play (stream) Quicktime movies in a shockwave movie for 2 days. I can't get them to play. I've tried most things I can imagine among others: Symptoms: Some movs show only the first frame but don't play. Movs don't show at all. Movs show only a white square. Platform: QT 5, D8.5, Mac, IE5, Netscace 4.7, sorensson. If you are testing locally, make sure everything's in a dswmedia folder as per your Director documentation. Also, the data rate of the QuickTime movies is probably way too high when you try to run the video over a web connection. Thanks for your reply. It works locally as in preview in browser. It does not work when on a www server. What is the average data rate of the QuickTime movies you are using? You can find this by opening the movie info dialog in QuickTime Player Pro. For a video clip to stream (start playing right away) over a 56k dialup connection, it would have to have an overall data rate of around 3.5 - 4.0 KBytes/sec (that's video AND sound). Getting it that low takes a compression application like Cleaner and some real skill. By contrast, an ordinary DV format video clip (that you'd play on a TV set) has a data rate of around 3.5 MB/sec! That means if you try to stream a video clip at that data rate over a 56k modem connection, you have about a thousand times too much data. You can't really get around that obstacle with a few lines of Lingo - you need to do some work on the video clips themselves first. OK, but this is not exactly the case. Its 380 x 180 pixels, data rate 140 K/sec. But we have a MAJOR internet connection at this university. Maybe it's the data rate anyway? I can't do very much about the movies right now, need to talk to the woman that submitted them first. We don't have Cleaner, so I need to import them into Premiere and render them from there, or use good old Movieplayer Pro. Do you happen to know where to find a simple turtorial of how to stream QT!?! --- MM has various technotes on that. For just the QT part, the book QuickTime For The Web is a very good reference. Steve Bennett www.ifmp.net Yeah I've tried everything in at least 5 technotes, dating as far back as D6.5. I'll try to lower the data rate severely though, just for testing's sake. What points to the data rate sollution is that it works a lot better if I use the preloadNetThing and wait 'til it's done before starting playback. Now that I think of it, those preloads seem to take way longer than the actual duration of the clips, so I guess streaming is not a possibility, he he. OK, thanks. -A. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
