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Originally Posted by Ryan Morehart
The streaming allows the user to instantly start viewing the movie, rather than having to download the entire thing first. But, since you mention it...
Do YOU know how to set it up? 
So... I assume by "Apple just launches the QuickTime player" you mean that they open up the full program interface and display it that way. Fine, that would work for me. Can you do that from HTML? |
Ryan,
If you "hint" a quicktime movie it will start displaying the movie clip as it is downloading it. In fact it is actually quicker to see a movie hinted then it is waiting for a streaming movie to buffer. Plus a downloadable movie always looks better then a streaming movie, because of bandwidth issues. You can see many examples of hinted movies at
http://www.apple.com/trailers
To answer your second question, to open up the quicktime player from a browser is a little bit harder. There is no "HTML" code to open up an application. Basically you need to embed a small quicktime movie that initiates a script tell it to open the quicktime player. To make the script you either need to use Flash or download
these scripts. I don't know how to script it, but if you Google it you might be able to find some answers.
Here is an example of what I am saying
http://stream.apple.akadns.net