Quicktime streaming problem - can you help?

Quicktime streaming problem - can you help?

Posted by: neilmac
Posted on: 2007-04-12 09:51:00

Hi everyone
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me where I am going wrong.
I am trying to stream an MP4 file here:
http://www.smallmedialarge.tv/page4/test.html

But either it doesn't play or when it does, the picture disintegrates as soon as I scroll the page.

The odd thing is it seemed to work ok when I tested it prior to posting.
I prepared the MP4 in Sorenson Squeeze and made sure the file was hinted.
I uploaded it to my DH streaming server and as (I hope) you can see here, I used the correct file structure:

<div id="movieplayer" style="display:none" align="center"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> QT_WriteOBJECT_XHTML('rtsp://streaming.macleanmedia.com/streaming.macleanmedia.com/SML512K.mp4', '320', '256', ''); // --> </script> </div> <div id="trigger" style="display:block" align="center"> <a href="rtsp://streaming.macleanmedia.com/streaming.macleanmedia.com/SML512K.mp4" target="_blank" onclick="javascript:document.getElementById('movieplayer').style.display='block';document.getElementById('trigger').style.display='none';return false"><img src="http://www.smallmedialarge.tv/assets/poster.jpg" alt="Click to Play" width="320" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div>

But it is still bust. (and even when I strip out the fancy stuff with the clickable poster in front, it is still bust)

Does anybody have an idea where I am going wrong?

many thanks
Neil

Re: Quicktime streaming problem - can you help?

Posted by: wholly
Posted on: 2007-04-12 19:56:00

I can't tell you. The only thing I can do is confirm that in firefox 2, it's not playing for me. Reliably. 5 tries all failures.

IE7 was truly mad about the concept.

Sorry I've been too useful.

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Re: Quicktime streaming problem - can you help?

Posted by: neilmac
Posted on: 2007-04-13 11:32:00

Thanks very much wholly
Did the version on the home page work ok for you? Anyone?
www.smallmedialarge.tv
That file is not on the streaming server.
I am not sure what the optimum settings are for streaming so the problem might be with my poor compression abilities.
Has anybody here compressed video using Sorenson Squeeze and successfully run it on a DH streaming server?
Any hints gratefully received.
thanks
Neil

Re: Quicktime streaming problem - can you help?

Posted by: wholly
Posted on: 2007-04-15 12:49:00

The home page video worked fine for me under FF2. I don't have time to do more investigation but obviously something can be made to work.

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