Howdy adessociao-ga,
The following Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education web
page has excellent instructions that explains your situation, and things to
do to correct it.
http://ce.byu.edu/is/share/help/techsupport.htm#installQT
"When trying to play a movie all I see is a little red square, green circle,
and blue triangle in the upper left hand corner."
Indeed, that is what is that square is, a (as pinkfreud points out) QuickTime
movie of (as tar_heel_v points out) a spinning logo of what appears to be a
Greek or Roman column of sorts.
If you do not have QuickTime, a browser "plug-in" by Apple (the computer
company) installed, or if the installation is corrupted, then you get the
box, circle and triangle as a type of error message.
The BYU site has a test to see if you have QuickTime installed.
http://ce.byu.edu/is/share/help/quicktimecheck.htm
"We need to find out if you have QuickTime installed correctly. Please click
here. It may take a moment for the new small window to appear and completely
load."
The page goes on to handle some further question you might have.
- How do I uninstall then reinstall QuickTime?
- I installed QuickTime, but when I click on a movie link, no video plays.
Keep in mind that on the web site in question there should be no need to
click on the movie as it is set up to play automatically.
If you need any clarification, feel free to ask.
Search strategy:
Personal experience with QuickTime.
Google search on: broken QuickTime circle square triangle
://www.google.com/search?q=broken+QuickTime+circle+square+triangle
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Request for Answer Clarification by
adessociao-ga
on
27 Sep 2004 15:24 PDT
The site in which i'm interested has nothing to do with movies.
www.templephotography.com are pictures taken with a
high-grade/top-of-the-line camera.
In going to the BYU link you supplied, I did learn that QuickTime is
not on this computer--a WindowsXP.
Is it still needed for camera photos? If so, should I click on one of
the other links in your answer or just forget it? I'm probably not
missing anything momentous, but still . . .
Further advice would be appreciated if possible. Thanks
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
27 Sep 2004 16:26 PDT
Howdy adessociao-ga,
It is my pleasure to provide some further advice.
No, you are not missing anything momentous, or even relevant, at least
not on the web site in question. There are many neat things on the net
that require QuickTime, such as movie previews, etc. but this is not one
of them. If just for this, I wouldn't worry about it all.
You might want to bookmark the following URL for future reference in case
you find a QuickTime animation, etc. that is worth viewing. This is the
web page where you can download the free Apple QuickTime plug-in.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
27 Sep 2004 16:28 PDT
Apologies, but:
"I wouldn't worry about it all."
should have read:
"I wouldn't worry about it at all."
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Request for Answer Clarification by
adessociao-ga
on
28 Sep 2004 08:54 PDT
this isn't clarification, just that anything have to do with Tim
Temple and photography is of great importance to me; to lightly
dismiss whatever's in that box, to me, even if not momentous, is
important to me.
IS it the fact i don't have this QuickTime preventing me from seeing it?
Why do i see all the other photos at the home page?
I loathe computers.
No need to apologize--i knew what you meant.
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Clarification of Answer by
denco-ga
on
28 Sep 2004 10:30 PDT
No problem, adessociao-ga.
I understand your passion for photography quite well. You might want to go
ahead and install QuickTime, as that is indeed what is preventing you from
seeing the animation that is contained within the "mystery" box.
Just as in photography, there are several ways images can be processed before
they are shown on the net. The other images on the web site in question are
of a different type than QuickTime.
The smaller images (the thumbnails) are in GIF format, with the larger versions
of those images being in JPG (also called JPEG) format. If you want, you can
learn more about these image formats on the Webopedia web site.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/JPG_GIF_PNG.asp
"Following are the most commonly used graphics file formats for putting
graphics on the World Wide Web and how each differs from the others."
Your browser, most likely Internet Explorer (IE), has the capability to view
many formats of images and animation automatically. QuickTime, for several
reasons, is just not one of those formats, hence the need to install the
QuickTime plug-in before you can view those types of images.
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