Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support

[Michael@BTW]

Thanks for checking Matt. The second movie, main difference is that the

Flash is not over the video track in the Bohemian Movie, (in that movie the

flash track contains a PNG image and a vector text track). I've tried the

problem (NetHelp) movie with various graphics settings in QT pro, for both

the Flash track and the QT track (straight alpha on both video/flash seems

to work in the player anyway), as well as export settings from Flash

(alpha-transparent, auto, copy) so far no real help (copy obscures the video

as expected, w/as auto behaves the same as alpha transparent).


The NetHelp movie appears to play fine when launched in the QuickTime player

at least in my tests:


http://www.bigtimeweb.com/netmercial/nethelpdemo/nethelpow.html


At present it seems to me to be a problem with Flash over video related to

using the embed tag. I did get the suggestion on the QT list to preload the

flash track, this appeared make the flash track show as expected in the

browsers I tested, however this disabled progressive download of the

QuickTime, so was not really an acceptable solution.


So that is where I'm at now, thanks bigtime;-) for checking it out,

hopefully a solution or at least an explanation will be found from this.




> Michael -

> 

> I can see this weird behavior. So far, the only browser/OS it works on is

> IE5/Win. All others fail. The movie is just black, but you can hear the

> sound.

> 

> I grabbed your QuickTime file and made attempts at embedding it into my own

> HTML page to see what's up. It would play fine locally ("file://") but not

> from a server ("http://"). That is weird.

> 

> You have another movie on your site with Flash and QuickTime content - this

> one links to it - that plays fine on all browsers. What is different about

> this particular movie?

> 

> Matt

> 

> ---------------

> Matt Wobensmith

> Macromedia Tech Support

> 


=====>

Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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