QT Player Challenge - Play Remote Movie

[Mark Smith]

I wonder if this has anything to do with bug 3639 (frequent timeouts  
on https connections). Dave Cragg found it was down to some failure  
to write to a socket, I think.

Best,

Mark

On 18 Apr 2007, at 05:58, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Mark Smith wrote:
>> Just did it here, on Mac  10.4.9 (G4 Powerbook), WiFi.
>> 1st time (player named "Tutorial") I got spinning deathball and no  
>> video. (forced quit to get out of it).
>> 2nd time (didn't name player, referenced "player 1"), all was fine
>> 3rd time (player named "Tutorial") all was fine.
>
>
>>> Challenge: get this movie to play in a revolution player stack  
>>> *over Wi-Fi*
>
> Harumph! (smile)  my "recipe" is blown and it's back to the  
> vagaries of
> a problem with the possibility for a solution close to virtual 0  
> percent:
>
> "It always works in the browser in any connection context,
> but in X number of those connection contexts Rev fails."
>
> But one thing seems sure, it *is* a Rev problem....some aspect
> of the http-tcp-ip-quicktime-api-player frame work is not as robust
> as a the implementation in a browser (sigh)
>
> It pretty much means that any strategy for video delivery (other
> than forcing a pre-download) must take the form of
>
> revGoUrl "http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/lexicon/ 
> Lexicon_Workshop_Tutorial.mov""
>
> and to just forget about using players... which is unfortunate,
> because we lose all the options for a fantastic UI.
>
> altBrowser next....and dropping them on our new Dreamhost account to
> see if streaming helps at all.
>
> Sivakatirswami
> www.himalayanacademy.com
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