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Streaming Video Files with Quicktime
Hyperlinks to Quicktime Files
The simplest way to add Quicktime to a web page is to make a hyperlink from the page directly to the video file like so:
<a href="video01.mov">Click here to view video</a>
When the end user clicks this hyperlink, the video file will begin downloading. In some cases it will begin playing once a portion of the file has been retrieved, but in other cases the entire file will need to be downloaded first. For this reason, we do not recommend using a simple link.
Embedding Quicktime Files
A better method is to embed the Quicktime movie in a web page with something like this:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320"HEIGHT="180"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="videofilename.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="false">
<EMBED SRC="videofilename.mov" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="180" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="false" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
Notice that this method uses two tags: <object> and <embed>. This is for maximum browser compatibility. You will need to set the file name and attributes for both tags.
See a working example of this code here.