Comments on: Controlling Embedded Video with Javascript Part I: Quicktime

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:29:59 +0000

Thanks for this post, I’m very close to figuring out my problem.

However, I can’t seem to get it to implement.

What I’m attempting to do is embed a quicktime mov (mov1) that autoplays and loops, then when the user clicks a button, the quicktime movie then swaps out for another movie (mov2), and so on for the other buttons. The trick is that when mov2 finishes playing, I need it to auto load mov1 again and play it.

Right now, I can’t get the buttons to swap out the movie.

Is there a limit to the amount of things that can happen inside a href? For example, here is my code:
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basically, I’m already using a behavior to have this button swap out images for another object.

The loadMov2 function is here:
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var movie = document.moviename;

function loadMov2(url)
{
movie.SetURL(“animations/Video2.mov”);
movie.SetControllerVisible(false);
}

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I have no idea how to load the first movie when mov2 completes but I saw it in the quicktime ref manual, so I know there at least is the functionality.

Thanks in advance for any help.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:03:47 +0000

Thanks for the post! I’m developing a HTML5 application that involves very frequent user-manipulation of the video, and am finding that non-h264 performance in browsers other than Safari (ie OGV in Chrome and Firefox) truly leaves something to be desired. This may be just the ticket

By: Cristina

Cristina — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:07:20 +0000

Sorry for the post. It seems to work. I was trying to access the movie.GetDuration() method in a function that was called by the onload event. I thought that, if I could register Quicktime events at this point, I could also call these methods then.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:24:08 +0000

I’m trying to get the duration of the movie with movie.GetDuration()/movie.GetTimeScale() but it seems an error occurs. Controls like Play(), Stop(), GetVolume() etc. work.

Do you have any suggestions?

I am using Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 with the Quicktime 7.6.5 plugin on Windows 7.

Thanks in advance.

By: George

George — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:00:41 +0000

Excellent blog, no wonder it jumped on one of the first positions in Google. I am bookmarking this site !!!. Btw, where is the article about controlling WMP with javascript?

By: walkingp

walkingp — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:33:49 +0000

That’s very clear,easy to understand.

By: ElTron

ElTron — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:47:39 +0000

Google Chrome seems not to work when trying to control a quicktime movie with javascript if frames are used.

Anybody does know why?

By: Layton BD

Layton BD — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:33:19 +0000

Excellent Post, thanks so much!

By: Shatil

Shatil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:22:15 +0000

hello,
i have to develop an application where user will click on a video file when the video is playing and i have to take the time when the user click the on the video file and pass it to the server.

for example a video is 3 min long and the user click on the video when it is in 2 min so i have to take the time as 2 min and send it server and process it.

Can javascript help me here.
plz give some examples

By: Somu Thomas

Somu Thomas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:14:12 +0000

The article was very helpful. I am facing a issue while working on rtsp streaming video. The video from the server is read using the QT, the file comes from a camera. When playing the video from the camera fails the file in server stops to update and the video in QT is struck in the last transmitted frame. the plugin status is seen as complete and the playing rate is at 1. Wen the camera returns back and continue to transmit the video still remains the last frame.

Any ideas on how to fix this is very helpful.