More than a few of my online buyers can't hear my QuickTime FREE
seminar about attracting new visitors to any Web site (without using
search engine optimization).

They claim they've installed the latest version of QuickTime, but
can't hear this stream:

rtsp://209.25.224.143/mailshopusa.com/bwtm.sample.mov

The stream orginates from my Web page at:
http://www.markusallen.org/cgi-bin/traffic.pl?PC=11687

Hi, markusallen.

I can connect and listen to your stream directly using my QuickTime
player. This a Good Thing - there's nothing wrong with the stream
itself.

However, when viewing your webpage in OmniWeb 4.1b5, Internet Explorer
5 and Mozilla 6, all for Mac OS X, and all using the QuickTime 5
browser plugin, nothing happens. This points to the HTML code used to
embed the movie being the problem.

At the moment, you have used the <embed> tag to insert the movie into
your document. However, due to some changes in more recent browsers,
this tag can no longer be used on it's own - it must be accompanied by
an <object> tag, too.

At the moment, on your website, you've embedded the movie with this
code:

<EMBED SRC="UNeedQT4.qti" WIDTH=175 HEIGHT=150
type="image/x-quicktime" autoplay=true
qtsrc="rtsp://209.25.224.143/mailshopusa.com/bwtm.sample.mov"></embed>

To ensure compatibility with later versions of Internet Explorer, the
code needs to be changed to something like the below:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
width="175" height="150"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="SRC" value="UNeedQT4.qti">
<param name="QTSRC" value="rtsp://209.25.224.143/mailshopusa.com/bwtm.sample.mov">
<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
<embed src="UNeedQT4.qti"
qtsrc="rtsp://209.25.224.143/mailshopusa.com/bwtm.sample.mov"
width="175" height="150"  autoplay="true" controller="true"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
type="video/quicktime">
</embed>
</object>

This contains both a traditional <embed> tag, and the <object> tag
needed for support in later browsers. (For the record, I quickly
tested this in an HTML file and it loaded fine in all of my browsers.)

This information is detailed at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/tutorials/activex.html

A good source of information on embedding a QT movie (from
www.arts.monash.edu.au) can be found at:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/it/artsweb/info_resources/mediaserver/embed.html

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
wildeeo-ga

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Clarification of Answer by wildeeo-ga on 22 May 2002 13:10 PDT

One more thing: you'll need to make sure you have an image file called
'UNeedQT4.qti' on your webserver somewhere. At the moment, it's trying
to load one from http://www.markusallen.org/cgi-bin/UNeedQT4.qti,
which doesn't exist...

You'll need to upload the file somewhere, and change the '<param
name="SRC" value="UNeedQT4.qti">' and '<embed src="UNeedQT4.qti" ...'
lines to reflect the location of the image.

For example, if you uploaded the file to
http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti, you'd need to change the
lines to '<param name="SRC"
value="http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti">' and '<embed
src="http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti" ...'.

(Feel free to request a clarification if it isn't clear.)

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Request for Answer Clarification by markusallen-ga on 22 May 2002 14:35 PDT

I appreciate your followup.

I'm a marketing guy, not a streaming expert.

Where would I get a dummy file?
And I assume I should place this dummy file
outside of my cgi-bin.

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Clarification of Answer by wildeeo-ga on 22 May 2002 14:55 PDT

Hi,

The "UNeedQT4.qti" file is the image the browser shows when the user
isn't running an up-to-date version of QuickTime - basically, it tells
them to upgrade.

I think a copy of the default image can be found at
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/it/artsweb/info_resources/mediaserver/qt4req.qtif
. You need to save this file as "UNeedQT4.qti".

You then need to upload the file to your webserver. You're right in
saying it should be uploaded outside of the cgi-bin directory - some
servers don't allow any non-scripts to be saved in there. It's
probably easiest to upload it to the root ('/') directory, so it can
be accessed from http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti.

Lastly, you need to change the code. If you uploaded it to the root
directory, you'd need to change the lines of code to:

<param name="SRC" value="http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti">

and

<embed src="http://www.markusallen.org/UNeedQT4.qti"
qtsrc="rtsp://209.25.224.143/mailshopusa.com/bwtm.sample.mov"
width="175" height="150" autoplay="true" controller="true"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
type="video/quicktime">

With any luck, this'll get the audio streamin'.

Good luck,
wildeeo-ga

Absolutely awesome... helped me fix FREE audio sample at:
http://www.markusallen.org/cgi-bin/traffic.pl?PC=11698