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[jaredc]

I have added a new snippet to the Snippet Library!

Snippet name: QTLoader
Author: jaredc
Version: .6a (Beta)
More info: View this snippet
Description:
Embed a Quicktime movie in your web page quick and easy. For those of us who like our movies to be integrated in the page instead of in a popup.

Just trying to automate some fairly frequently used tasks that I have. Hope I'm not the only one out there using Quicktime

[adamr]

Jaredc
I'm just trying the QTLoader and am getting the message "Quicktime movie unvailable".

I created a folder in assets called quicktime and uploaded the sample.mov that comes with quicktime.

I edited the snippet as per below but am unsure as to whether I should simply uncomment the height, width part as opposed to including in snippet call in the actual document where I want the movie to load .

At the moment I have [[QTLoader?height=360&width=480 path=assets/quicktime/sample.mov]]
in this page.

It's probably something really obvious but could you tell me what I'm doing wrong?




// Configuration Settings

// $qtBaseDir [ string ]
// The base directory you want to use for your Quicktime videos.
// This can make the path you enter into the snippet shorter as
// it doesn't have to be from the root (which is default).
// MUST HAVE TRAILING FORWARD SLASH AT THE END (/).
// Example: 'assets/quicktime/';
$baseDir = 'assets/quicktime/';

// *** REQUIRED ***
//
//$path [ snippet var string ]
// The file path of the movie from the Quicktime Base Directory.
// This is set ONLY in the snippet call with the variable $path
// [[QTLoader?path=folder/folder2/file.mov]]

// *** REQUIRED ***
//
// $height, $width [ int ]
// Height and width set in snippet call with $height and $width
//[[QTLoader?height=360&width=480]]

[jaredc]

The purpose of specifying a base directory in the config is to save you some key strokes when it comes time to put the snippet in a page. So where you have:

[[QTLoader?height=360&width=480 path=assets/quicktime/sample.mov]]

It looks for assets/quicktime/assets/quicktime/sample.mov

Try doing this in your snippet call instead (leaving out the base directory part):

[[QTLoader?height=360&width=480 path=sample.mov]]

Let me know if that does it for you!

[adamr]

Thanks for the reply. I tried the revised snippet but still get the same error message.

[jaredc]

Be sure the "&" is between all the snippet variables. I just noticed it was missing between 480 and path. So it should read:

[[QTLoader?height=360&width=480&path=sample.mov]]

Note that the "&" has been restored. Give that a shot.

[adamr]

jaredc, on Jan 15 2005, 11:23 AM, said:

Be sure the "&" is between all the snippet variables. I just noticed it was missing between 480 and path. So it should read:

[[QTLoader?height=360&width=480&path=sample.mov]]

Note that the "&" has been restored. Give that a shot.

Thanks that worked a treat.

Note: I was getting 3 instances of "\n" at the bottom of the quicktime movie so I removed a backslash from the snippet code

// handles
$newline = "\\n";

became

// handles
$newline = "\n";

After I did this the 3 instances "\n" no longer appeared.

[jaredc]

Yeah. The snippet library used to remove one "\" so I made a habit of putting in two. It seems like that got fixed but without enough fanfare for me to notice. I'll fix that. Done.

[vitalis]

Hello,
where i can get QTLoader snippet code? I can't find it in the download, and the link in this post does not work.
Somebody can help me? Thank you!

[Ralph]

Perhaps Dean has a cop in his archives... Otherwise, it shouldn't be all that difficult to write new code...