QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
A comprehensive explanation of QuickTime for every multimedia author.
TABLE OF CONTENTS QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
Launching QuickTime Player
It's possible to write HTML that will play your QuickTime movies (or other media files) in the QuickTime Player application instead of the plug-in. This is handy, because QuickTime Player can do some things that the plug-in can't, such as playing movies in full-screen mode.
The usual way to launch QuickTime Player is to use a poster movie a QuickTime movie, usually a single image, that launches QuickTime Player in response to a mouse click. The poster can also be set to launch QuickTime Player automatically, without requiring a mouse click.
Starting with QuickTime 5, it's possible to launch QuickTime Player directly from a text link, which is sometimes preferable to a poster movie.
Let's take a look at both methods.
Launching QuickTime Player from a Poster Movie
A poster movie is a QuickTime movie that responds to a mouse click by playing another movie. In this case, that movie is targeted to open in QuickTime Player.
You can make any QuickTime movie into a poster movie by adding an HREF parameter to the movie's tag. To make the movie open in QuickTime player, just add TARGET="quicktimeplayer" as well. For example:
This example embeds Poster.mov in a Web page. If the viewer clicks in the display area of Poster.mov, QuickTime plays Main.mov in QuickTime Player.
A poster movie is usually a single image from the main movie, with the movie's title and something like "Click here to play" superimposed on it. You...
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