revweb and videos (quicktime and youtube)

[Richard Miller]

Well, I spoke too fast. There are a few more issues with playing videos 
in a QT player when the videos are stored on a server.

1. The only reliable way to have these videos play is to save them with 
hinted streaming turned on. Without that, some will play; others lock 
the revlet up. Standard 30 fps videos seem to play fine. Higher frame 
rate videos lock the revlet (and the browser) up completely. But when I 
saved these same videos with hinted streaming turned on, they played 
fine in the browser.

2. Secondly... and this can drive folks nuts... the same bug that was 
present in earlier versions of Rev is still present.

If you set the filename of a QT player to a remotely-stored video, the 
player plays fine. BUT, if you try to set that same player to a 
different video, it will fail. This has always been the case. The trick 
is to delete the player, create a new one, then set it to the new filename.

Richard



Richard Miller wrote:
> Solved the first item. In other versions of Rev, it works fine to set 
> the filename of a quicktime player to something of the form, 
> "ftp://....". Doing so in a revlet will lock everything up. But when I 
> switched to "http://... ", all worked fine. Streaming begins and the 
> video plays fine.
>
> I'd still like to hear thoughts on the YouTube item, though.
>
> Thanks.
> Richard
>
>
>
> Richard Miller wrote:
>> Two questions.
>>
>> I am trying to set the filename of a quicktime player to a video 
>> stored on a remote server, but there appears to be a bug in this 
>> functionality. I see the first frame of the video, but the revlet 
>> locks up thereafter (along with the entire browser). Works fine in 
>> the development environment. Works fine in a standalone (i.e. earlier 
>> versions of Rev). Is this a known bug? Setting the filename of a 
>> player to a local file also works fine while running a revlet. I've 
>> only tested this in Firefox on a PC under XP.
>>
>> In the past, setting a quicktime player to view a remotely-stored 
>> video would cause the player to start streaming the video 
>> immediately... even if the video wasn't set up specifically to stream 
>> or stored on a streaming server. Nice feature.
>>
>> Secondly, any ideas on how to show a YouTube video in a revlet?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
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