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• การ Post QuickTime Movie ลงใน Wordpress - ♥ Pongpan Suriyapat : 李速鹏 // May 19, 2007 at 3:51 pm

  [...] Link จ๊ะ : QuickTime Embedded [...]

• Elliot // May 17, 2007 at 2:46 am

  

  Hey Eyn,

  I am having a bit of trouble getting your plugin to work on the home page of my site. it works in the archives and after the tag in the latest post but it wont work on the very front page of my site… any ideas?

  it wont work here…

  http://www.olsonimages.com

  but it does here….

  http://olsonimages.com/archives/70

  is it because it is in the archives? For some reason it wont work above the tag.

  By the way I like it very much, I have been searching for something like this for quite a while. Thanks…

• Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » Gila Monster // May 16, 2007 at 6:39 pm

  [...] this project is also an experiment to see if the QuickTime Embed plugin for WordPress will work. If you’re reading this article shortly after I put it online and [...]

• TF // May 14, 2007 at 2:26 am

  

  hi,

  sounds easy enough to use but i keep getting the blue Q with the question mark. where should i upload the .mov?

  sorry…i’m new at this.

  thank you,
  tf

• Brock // May 13, 2007 at 1:39 pm

  

  Looks great - and yes, it worked out of the box. Thanks for your work on this!

• madteckhead // May 5, 2007 at 4:17 pm

  

  Hi Love your work!

  Thought I would let you know of a neat application for your plugin. Im using it to display my panorama photos; well only one at the moment. You can find it here:
  http://www.madteckhead.dreamhosters.com/blog/2007/04/12/procrastination-is-it-what-keeps-us-from-the-gods/

  I would like to know if you others can see the controller. I can’t on firefox under os x. It is a little hard to work out how to use quicktime with panorama photos without the controller, so if anyone knows how to make it appear. That would be ace.

  Also, is there a quick way to display a jpeg alternative in the event that quicktime is not supported for some reason?

  Keep up the great work. If I sell any photos beceause of your plug in I won’t forget you.

  All the best,

  N

• HOWTO: Vídeos de QuickTime en Wordpress » The Decline // May 4, 2007 at 10:25 am

  [...] en este formato en Wordpress. Para ello lo primero que tenéis que hacer es descargar el plugin QuickTime Embed. He probado muchos otros, pero ninguno funciona tan bien como éste. Una vez lo tengáis activado [...]

• Sean // Apr 28, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  

  Hi,

  I’m in the procecss of creating a site using wordpress.org; right now it’s running on a local server run by Apache 2.2. Using the plugin all I get is a blue quicktime Q. Am I missing something? Is this because I’m running off the local server? Will this change when I upload it to the host, because the quicktime movie I’m trying to run works fine on the Web site that I’m also running offline right now.

  I’m not that new to coding and quite good at markup, but my php and skills with server-side languages is pretty basic.

  Any advice or help would be great.

• Daniel // Apr 6, 2007 at 3:00 am

  

  I can’t believe there’s only been 1 donation to this amazing plugin!

  I use it. It’s practically the backbone of my content delivery. I appreciate you taking the time to provide it to the world, so I chipped in. :-)

  Please don’t give up on it!

• Jimy // Apr 2, 2007 at 1:27 am

  

  …cont. from above…

  OK, that’s weird. Doesn’t work at work, but works at home, both using Firefox??

  Any ideas why this would be the case? Is there something in my browser settings perhaps that would black out the controllers and slider at the bottom, but still enable clicking on them?

  (Note: both play the movies fine, only controls different)

  Cheers.

• Jimy // Mar 29, 2007 at 8:39 pm

  

  Hi,

  I’ve downloaded the latest and got it working but have come across a problem that I couldn’t find the answer to… example at:
  http://www.jamesshaw.co.nz/blog/?p=94

  I don’t seem to get the controllers at the bottom, i.e. the time slider, play/pause button etc. I am using Firefox to view??

  Any help much appreciated.

• emanuele // Mar 29, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  

  Realy cool plugin! Thanks for share!

• eyn // Mar 17, 2007 at 1:41 pm

  

  kevin, glad you solved the problem. As a rule of thumb, if the zip folder comes in folder you usually upload the whole folder to the plugin directory. Reading the installation details carefully will also save you the trouble. ;)

  Claudio, I guess a universal poster may do just what you want. I’m not too sure if the poster dimension poses any limitation on videos in different dimension, probably not. I might implement such a feature just so the movie won’t load immediately as soon as the page is loaded.

  Tod, thanks for the donation. What you are looking for is the poster feature and as I mentioned above I might implement a universal poster setting in the next version. This way, you don’t have to manually add in the poster path each time you embed a QuickTime movie.

• Claudio // Mar 15, 2007 at 2:30 am

  

  It should be…

  [qt:/trailer/TrailerHIGH.mov /pix/image.jpg 500 375]

  ;)

• Tod Brilliant // Mar 14, 2007 at 1:21 pm

  

  Claudio -

  Thanks! I’m a bit code retaded, so, if I have this for my existing video:

  [qt:http://www.escapefromsuburbia.com/trailer/TrailerHIGH.mov 500 375]

  I merely append after 375 with my website and folder info? 375/http://www.todbrilliant.com/pix/image.jpg 320 256]?

  that seems dead wrong. . . I’m missing something.

• Claudio // Mar 14, 2007 at 8:12 am

  

  Tod,
  simply use the following tag in your posts:

  [qt:/directories/your_video.mp4 /directories/your_sample.jpg 320 256]

  PS. the only “bug” i found is that by using this kind of tag (incl. the poster movie, both it’s a .jpg or .mov or .mp4), the kioskmode set to TRUE value doesn’t work.

  In fact when users click on the sample, then the movie is loaded and played.. the controller is full of “Save Video As” option! I didn’t find any way to fix it.

  DAMN!! ^^

  Cheers,
  Claudio

• Tod Brilliant // Mar 13, 2007 at 11:16 pm

  

  1. Is it true that nary a soul has donated for your fine plugin? If so, that has changed as I just made a small donation of $20. The rest of you reading this, pony up!!

  2. How do I get the video to display a static ‘holding page’ instead of a big black blank prior to a user pressing play?

  Thanks thanks thanks!

  Tod

• Alex // Mar 13, 2007 at 7:19 pm

  

  hello,
  I do believe that this plugin supports adding a poster movie directly via the markup:

  [qt:path.to.movie.mov path.to.poster.mov sizeX sizeY+16]

  I’m still trying to get a hand cursor over the poster movie. I’ve tried everything. I suspect the problem is that wordpress puts everything in tags.

  best wishes,

  Alex

• Don Campbell // Mar 13, 2007 at 5:13 pm

  

  Hi Claudio - you want to make a “poster movie” that is only the first frame of the movie, and when it is clicked it then loads the entire movie. Alex’s post above references a link with some instructions:
  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/09/29/two-slick-quicktime-tricks.html?page=last

  And here is another link from Apple’s site with some instructions: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT4WebPage/samplechap/special-10.html

  We put a nice “Play” button on our poster movie so it is obvious that you should click it to play the movie.

  Hope this helps!
  -Don

• Claudio // Mar 13, 2007 at 8:38 am

  

  Hi guys..
  is that the possibility to implement code for the “Buffering Mode” of the player. If i post lots of videos, the page need to load all of these before complete.

  I want that only if users click on the play button the video starts to load & play.

  Thank you!
  Claudio

• Don Campbell // Mar 11, 2007 at 9:27 pm

  

  Eyn,
  Yes, the poster feature is exactly what I was looking for. Now it’s all working great. Thank you!
  -Don

• Carlo // Mar 10, 2007 at 4:17 pm

  

  I’ve been looking everywhere for something like this - thank you! It works perfectly.

• kevin // Mar 7, 2007 at 5:24 pm

  

  Hi Eyn,

  I figured it out and the plugin works FANTASTICALLY.

  The problem was that I had uploaded the individual files rather than the whole folder. Wordpress won’t let you upload folders into the right directory unless you go through the ftp folder. So I had originally just put the files individually into the plugin folder. That doesn’t work.

  SO FOR anyone who uploaded the individual files, Disable the plugin, go back to the host, erase the files, upload the FOLDER(not the individual files) using the ftp rout. GUESS what, it works awesome after that.

  Thanks a mill’ Eyn!!

  Kevin

• kevin // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:07 pm

  

  Eyn,

  Please help me if you can!!!!
  I am new to web programming but I can’t get this to work.

  I’m using wordpress. I uploaded the QT movie to my host server. I couldn’t upload the embed plugin as a folder. So I uploaded it in seperate files in the directory(one by one.) THE plugin showed up on my plugin list and I activated it.
  Problem is….well two problems actually:

  1. I typed the tag [qt:/video/http://www.splinebinder.com/REEL4web.mov 480 376] in the “write page” space in the “Code” option. Then I published it and it never showed up. I TRIED the same thing in the “Write post” but had the same result. I guess I may not be typing the code in the right place or have it wrong.

  2. THE second problem is that I’m not sure if I uploaded the video into the right place on my host server. If I go to that page directly, the video will play from that page after a lengthy download. However, this plugin is not working for me.

  I am desperately in need of help here.

  Kevin

• eyn // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:22 am

  

  Deems, you should look up the poster feature in the FLV Embed documentation page.

  Don, you’re probably looking for the poster feature. When using a poster, the movie is not loaded until the user click on the poster frame to start the movie. More details on how to use a poster frame can be found in the documentation above.

  Neil, thanks for bringing this issue up once again. I just haven’t had the time to make a new version so the problem just kinda stuck with the current release. Maybe I should just edit a few lines of code and upload a new zip file. :p

• Neil // Mar 2, 2007 at 2:45 pm

  

  I just wanted to let you know that there is a minor bug in your plugin, which is only apparent if you set up Wordpress as your site homepage, but keep it in its own directory as described in the Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory).

  To fix the bug, you need to edit lines 97 and 114 to fetch bloginfo(’wpurl’) instead of bloginfo(’url’). Otherwise, the link to your Javascript file won’t work, and the plugin “breaks.”

  Thanks for the cool plugin, though!

• Don Campbell // Feb 27, 2007 at 6:05 pm

  

  Eyn - thank you so much for this excellent plug-in. We’re using it on our blog at KidConfidence now.

  One thing that I’ve run into - if you post large movie files it really slows things down when the main blog page is loaded… Is there any way to post an image that will start the movie when clicked?

  I found some code examples mentioned in earlier comments but they sort of defeat the purpose of the plug-in because it required the poster to add a lot of Javascript code manually to each post.

  Thanks again for the nice plug-in!
  -Don

• Deems // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:14 am

  

  Eyn, thank you for your suggestion regarding dimensions, I think that it has to be the problem, what else COULD it be right? I’m sure that’s exactly what it is, but the the FLV player is working out just fine, thank you for making it. I was the one who posted the question about being able to link the poster from somewhere else. And I wanted to ask you and everybody here who knows a hell lot more about this stuff than me, do you think for now I can trick it somehow? Maybe with a swf that loads the FLV when it’s clicked? I am not that good at programing but I think something like that could be possible no? As you can see on my site I post a few videos at once and when you see them in the row, it looks kind of boring all black with no picture, so I am really trying to find a way to make to change that. I have the same thing on myspace and that also looks pretty crappy. Thank you for your help and thank you again for making these things, it is greatly appreciated!! Amazing job!

• Allison Sheridan // Feb 26, 2007 at 12:03 am

  

  Eyn - I checked out that Audio Player Plugin and it worked perfectly! I just plugged it in, told it to make all mp3s into flash, and instantly they were. I’m convinced that there are no limits to what can be done by the community.

  My next goal is to turn my logo/banner into the player itself!

  thanks again,
  Allison

• eyn // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:34 pm

  

  Allison, I haven’t tried it myself but you might be able to do it, just put in 16px for height and whatever width you want, this way it will only show the controller. If your audio files is in mp3, you might want to take a look at the popular Audio Player plugin.

  russ welti, I’m not sure if you are referring to this plugin or just generic QuickTime embed. For this plugin, yes, the QuickTime white screen will momentarily flash for about a second when you first load the page. This is due to the Javascript implementation and the way how the Javascript is written. If you find this distracting, you might want to consider the “classic” way of embedding without using Javascript.

  Deems, looks like you’re using my FLV Embed plugin for now. Anyway, I checked out your site earlier before you make the switch and the problem you had earlier is due to the QuickTime movie’s dimension being much larger than the width and height you specified in your qt tags. You should reduce the QuickTime movie’s height and width to fit your blog’s column width. Usually 480px is the widest you should go for and many theme’s column is even less than that.

  jaz, thanks for offering help to other users, but I guess Deems has the right path earlier, it’s just the problem I mention above.

• jaz // Feb 24, 2007 at 6:09 am

  

  Deems,

  I think the problem is that you have the file path to the movie incorrect.

• Deems // Feb 24, 2007 at 3:11 am

  

  Hi, thank you for making this plug-in.
  I was wondering if maybe you can tell me what I am doing wrong? Because when I insert the code, the QT window appears in my blog but I can’t see the player and so I can’t start the movie. What do you think could be the problem? Thank you in advenced.

• russ welti // Feb 20, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  

  On Windows XP, even with both the Quicktime Player preferences cache set to 5 GB (gigabytes) and the browser (FF or IE) cache set to maximum sizes, I still see a white blank box with the trademark “blue QT” logo for about one second when I refresh a web page with Quicktime-embedded movies.

  I can see that the browser has these movies in its cache, and I’ve told QT to use a huge cache, but still I have to see a momentary white box that flashes and jerks a bit before the content appears.

  Wrote the HTTP headers of my web page to indicate that the content never changes, too.

  Any idea why this happens? I suppose I could try a poster frame, but since the content is already cached it should be instantly available and I really want my movie to auto-start, which it does…

  Two facts:
  The same web page on a Mac in Safari or FF starts instantly, no white box with blue Q.

  If I convert the movies to Flash video they start immediately on any platform or browser ( my current only solution ).

  thanks!!
  R.Welti

• » Blog Archive » Show #83 Chainsaw! // Feb 18, 2007 at 11:49 pm

  [...] Pro for audio and video recording, Why I love the internet, plugin embedding QT into Wordpress from channel-ai.com/blog/plugins, iRecord from [...]

• Allison Sheridan // Feb 18, 2007 at 8:24 pm

  

  I read your comment just in time to change my script before the show recording! so glad you sent that correction on your gender and name - now all that’s left for me to mess up is my pronunciation!

  thanks again for a great product, I used it twice more since I wrote my previous comment.

  i wonder if there’s a way to adapt this to do audio too? My links to QT audio always open up a new browser window with that plain old tiny little player thing in it.

• eyn // Feb 18, 2007 at 7:34 pm

  

  Alex, I haven’t tried to implement the trick myself but if I do get it to work after trying I might add it as an optional feature in the next version. ;)

  Allison, glad to know this plugin is working fine for you! I’m actually a guy :P and my real name is Yaosan (you may find it in the source code but I guess most users aren’t programmers), eyn is just an alias I use on the web. Your podcast sounds interesting and I’ll definitely check it out!

• Allison Sheridan // Feb 18, 2007 at 5:49 pm

  

  i got the idea to look for a way to embed QT into my Wordpress blog, and within 6 minutes I had your plugin up and running with my videos! I love the power of the internet and the generosity of people like you! I will be podcasting my enthusiasm tonite (2/17/07) so if you want to hear the praise, head on over to the NosillaCast podcast! I’m giving credit to Eyn as the developer as she’s been answering - I hope that’s right! thanks again for a great tool!

• Alex // Feb 12, 2007 at 10:24 am

  

  is it possible to get a hand cursor on top of the poster movie??
  I’ve been trying CSS but I just can’t get it to work.

  Here is a link to an article by o’reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/09/29/two-slick-quicktime-tricks.html?page=last

  thank you again for the great plugin.

• eyn // Feb 11, 2007 at 4:15 am

  

  Hi jaz, really nice suggestion there, thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. I used a plugin called “Kill Preview” so I don’t have the preview problem myself but I’ll definitely add this optional feature to the next version, which unfortunately won’t be released anytime soon seeing I’m extremely busy with my studies. :(

• jaz // Feb 8, 2007 at 4:41 am

  

  hey eyn,

  awesome plugin! this is making it very easy for my client to embed quicktime in their posts, and the deconcept script is the best one out there in my opinion. :)

  one thing — i was finding it difficult that the movies load in the preview pane on the write post page, and the rich text editor doesn’t kick in until the page is done loading.

  if you have a large video in your post, its a pain to have to wait for the whole video to download in the preview pane before you can use the rich text buttons. to fix it, i put the following line of code as the first line in the ai_quicktime function:

  if ($_GET['preview'] != true)

  now the movies don’t load in the preview pane on the write post page. i was thinking you could make this one of the options.. or people could just copy my code here if they are having the same problem. cheers!

• Cyril sauvenay // Feb 4, 2007 at 11:32 am

  

  Thanks very much for your answer, and the time you spend for your plugin! Now everything is OK, it works fine! (My trouble is now how to find another plugin to automatise RSS and video podcast, but this is another thing!)

• eyn // Feb 2, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  

  aubrey island, I don’t have the time to update this plugin yet but if I need help with the iTunes support I’ll definitely keep in touch with you, thanks for the offer!

  Cyril, you might want to show me the page with the error, and I don’t really get what you mean there. You might want to look into your poster movie and see if it’s in the right format. To make a poster, you open an image with QuickTime, then choose “Save as…”, then “self contained movie”. Regarding the streaming, someone asked the same question earlier and I believe it does work with rtsp links, or you could try the patch I posted in one of my comments earlier, but there’s no guarantee it’s going to work nicely. :p

  Paris, the reason why the plugin doesn’t work for you is because you didn’t install the plugin properly. If you read the installation instruction properly, it says upload the whole folder (not the files individually), and that’s what you need. You shouldn’t take out the files from the folder and upload them into the plugin root directory. ;) Hopefully it works for you once you make the changes! You should deactivate the plugin, remove the files, then upload the “quicktime-embed” folder you extracted from the zip.

• Paris // Feb 2, 2007 at 6:56 pm

  

  Hello,
  Your plugin has everything I need, but for some reason I can’t get it to work. I installed and activated the plugin, then entered the code, but nothing happens.
  Code:
  [qt:/video/droplets.mov 600 100]
  Link to the page where I wrote the code:
  http://parisvideoweb.com/index.php/services
  Any help will greatly appreciated.
  Thanks!

• Cyril sauvenay // Feb 1, 2007 at 12:43 pm

  

  Hi,
  Thanks a lot for this plugin!
  I have 2 questions. When I put my .mov alone, it works well, but when I put it with a poster, it doesn’t - just waiting after the clic without putting the vidéo on. Any idea?
  Second: is it possible to use streaming files with the plugin?
  Thanks a lot to take time to help!

• Thomas // Jan 18, 2007 at 2:26 am

  

  This is a great Plug-in.
  Worked “out of the box”.
  Thank you!!!

• aubrey island // Jan 11, 2007 at 11:17 pm

  

  email me if you want any help or add me on skype: aubreyisland

• eyn // Jan 9, 2007 at 8:52 pm

  

  First of all, sorry for the late reply! aubrey island, you’re absolutely right and I should have included that in my code. I was thinking about the different case of hiding and showing controller bar when I wrote the first version. Anyway, a better approach is to write a code that decide itself if the 16px should be added and add it automatically if required. This way user only needs to worry about the actual dimension of the QuickTime movie. I’ll definitely get this done for the next version, and thanks for sharing your code with better vodcasting options. I’m not too familiar with iTunes podcast via FeedBurner but I guess I could look into that and improve the vodcast support in the next version.

  chuck, you’re right about the siteurl vs. blogurl issues. I have learnt my lesson with my “Star Ratings for Reviews” plugin since some users can’t get it to work on their blogs. I’ll have this issue fixed for the next version. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

• evercambio » Quicktime Embed Plugin for Wordpress // Jan 4, 2007 at 1:41 am

  [...] Dubbed the “simple version” of Channel-Ai’s Quicktime Embed, this version strips most of the extra options and simply embeds your Quicktime video using JavaScript and valid XHTML. [...]

• chuck // Jan 3, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  

  Hi,
  Nice plugin! You should use the wordpress URI instead of the blog URI for this reason:

  Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

  The path is incorrect to your javascript file and I suspect that is why Luke is having problems too.

  chuck

• aubrey island // Jan 2, 2007 at 4:09 pm

  

  I created a simple version with better Vodcasting (iTunes) options at http://evercambio.com/2007/01/02/qt/

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