Playing QuickTime movie in Revlets

[Ron Zellner]

I'm still finding it difficult to reliably play QT movies in revlets.

Initially I had the movie in the same folder as the .Rev file with a relative reference; then, after creating the Revlet, I moved it into the resulting folder with the Revlet & html file. However, when the revlet is run in my browser the movie does not appear.

To solve the problem I put a copy of the movie on the server and addressed it in the stack with a url:

Player Source box: http://MyServer.xxx.edu/Student/EDTC660 ... yMovie.mov

This seems to work well on my Mac, both for playing the movie in the stack itself, and for playing the movie in the resulting revlet.

However, when trying this on a PC, the movie does not appear in the stack or in the revlet.

We are using H.264 format movies. These work fine when addressed in the player as a local file, but do not appear when addressed from a server as a URL.

However, when I converted the movie to QT MPEG-4 format it worked fine as a URL source in both the PC stack and the Revlet.

Does anyone know why the revelet does not play the direct file (I've checked all the security settings in the WebStandalone settings)

or why the PC doesn't play well with the H.264 file?

[Klaus]

Hi Ron,

I have not (yet) played with Revlets but you could check "the result" right after setting the filename of your player to the URL.
Ir should be empty on success. Maybe that will give you a hint about why/what is not working.


Best

Klaus

[cborn]

I've been playing with this in Revlets, too. Today I think I've figured out that on Windows you need to load the filename of the player as file:///C:/.... On the Mac, I use file:/Users/.... I am unclear why this is necessary, but it seems to work. Good Luck!