[Strawberrysauce]

hi, im trying to get a movie of mine to download so the viewer can watch it as its downloading. i seen this on other sites with quicktime movies but mine just seems to want to load the whole movie first.

the page is www.brokenpixel.co.uk/surveillance.html

could it have anything to do with the codec i used? (sorenson 3) what would be the best codec for this size of movie? (about 180*150)

help?

[[Shizo]]

You used this code?

<embed src="http://www.brokenpixel.co.uk/surveillanceWEB.mov" width="180" height="180" border="0" controller="true" loop="false" autoplay="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</embed>

If not, it might be the encoding.. then you could save the file and see it's properties.

[Strawberrysauce]

thanks for the reply
yeah thats the code

here the details of the movie from premiere..



i think i may try a few experiments by uploading differently encoded movie file to see what happens with each of them, i know that for streaming QT you need a proper server that can handle it but i sure this is not the case for progressive downloads.

help?

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: shamhead ]

[[Shizo]]

If it was me, i would look at the following lines:
Video Compressor: Sorenson Video 3
Audio Compressor: QDesign Music 2

And search for those things (sorenson video compression) or something..

[UPDATE]
ehh.. were those properties of YOUR file or the example file that you gave on webpage?
if it's yours, disregard this message and read the following :0

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: [Shizo] ]

[Pat]

I'm no QuickTime whiz, but did you compress the movie without changing the keyframe frequency? QT might not allow the video to be played while it downloads because an extended keyframe could cause corruption in the playback. More keyframes make the movie larger, but they might let you do what you're looking for. It could also be the sound compressor you used. Depending on the codec, it might prevent play while loading. Just some things you could try.

I have a QT movie on my site and the html command for the movie also included this:

cache="true"

Maybe that needs to be in there as well.

-Pat

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: Pat ]

[Strawberrysauce]

WELL.... after all my screwing about, looking up sites, changing keyframe ratios, compression techniques, codecs, uploading diferent versions, testing, etc etc bla bla

i eventually just opened the movie in Quicktime and re-saved it and guess what ... it fecking WORKED!

turns out that my version of premiere just dosen't export the latest type of quicktime movies, and that resaving it simply updated it. so if anybody comes across the same problem you know what to do!, thanks for the help everybody.

oh, and if you wana see it...

CLICKY!!

its a small version of the final result of my last uni project, meant to be a visual look at how we now live in a surveillance society.

cheers

[ February 03, 2002: Message edited by: shamhead ]