Quicktime Movies

How to view Quicktime Movies: Currently it is possible to view Quicktime Movies on most computer platforms. However, the cross-platform Quicktime Movies format is not the same as the standard Macintosh QuickTime format. Using MoviePlayer 2.1 for the Macintosh, they converted the movies to a flattened, cross-platform format by using the "Save as..." option. Since it seems that the "flattened" MooV (QuickTime) files might not run quite as smoothly on the Macintosh, and it often takes some wacky hijinks to get the computer to recognize them as Quicktime Movies after downloading, they also include a BinHexed form of the original Macintosh QuickTime format for the movies. Therefore, they have two versions available for downloading.

Quicktime 4 Linux was the first convenient way to read and write uncompressed Quicktime Movies on Linux. Today Quicktime 4 Linux is intended mainly for content creation and uncompressed movies. These usually arise during the production phase and not the distribution phase of a movie. It has improvements in color model support, bit depth, accuracy, reliability, and codec’s, while not stressing economy.

Features: Quicktime 4 Linux is the foundation for many of the features of Cinelerra. It includes several front ends to encoders and decoders which are used by applications directly.

Quicktime on Windows: Apple computers also make a Quicktime viewer for the Windows environment to see Quicktime Movies. It's available by links to the software page from their Quicktime Home Page. Once you have installed the viewer, you should download the movies with the .MOV extensions which can be read by non-Macintosh systems.

Quicktime Movies does not have to have a video track; a sound track-only movie can open Web pages automatically at timed intervals as well.

Putting Quicktime Movies on the Web: Embedding Quicktime Movies means that movie will play inside a webpage and you can include anything else you'd like in that webpage - text, images, links, etc. When the page loads an image will hold the place of the movie. When you click on the image, the movie will start downloading. When a portion of the movie has loaded, it will start playing. Also, if you don't embed the movie, when the user clicks on the movie link it will open with QuickTime outside the web browser window. There are two HTML tags need to embed a movie - <EMBED> and <OBJECT>.

"The <EMBED> tag in Quicktime Movies allows media file types other than those directly supported by the browser to be handled with an external application or plug-in. In this case, the external application is QuickTime Player and the plug-in is the QuickTime Plug-in.