November 14, 2004
quicktime dev links
posting them here so i dont lose them.
what is sweet here is that the embed tag allows 4 nice things:
1. 'starttime'
2. 'endtime'
these are timecodes to set the pay times within a larger file. no chapter creation for me - all i have to do is output the timecode of the stills and then link with that start time to the actual qt file.
3. 'qtnext'
which lets you specify the next movie to be shown after the one playing. apparently you can link up to 256 movies in a row.
this is cool for several reasons: if i split files up for playback, itll let you hop from one 'chapter' to the next without any fancy wrangling.
also, if we do start talking some kind of composite reel or queue system for watching the best bits, it can be done pretty dynamically. i think. maybe.
4. 'enablejavascript'
which says it lets you control a movie through javascript. could be very very useful and i need to find some more info on this.
(kurt and i have been talking about my project a lot. time-code based comments is a no brainer. but then it could be pretty trivial to get the 'greatest hits' based on comments/views and link those chapters together. [the trick there maybe is to figure out a way to branch - to stay with the clip and see more or to branch to the next interesting bit.] 'greatest hits' could be a number of things - most commented, important moments, most viewed...im all about skipping around, as long as it remains easy to get to the original material. i dont want to end up with a system where the data is less accessible once you apply these types of filters.)
Posted by tripp at November 14, 2004 02:26 PM