Overview

We've looked at a lot of things you can do with QuickTime movies, but the surprising fact is that we've just scratched the surface. So far, we've looked at movies that are essentially passive just media that gets presented; the viewer watches or listens, but doesn't really interact.

Now we're going to look at QuickTime movies that interact with the viewer, with a browser, with streaming servers and Web servers, with other movies, and with the tracks and characteristics inside other movies.

We'll look at movies that are control panels, musical instruments, guided tours of websites, scientific calculators, games, puzzles things that will amaze and delight you.

QuickTime Interactivity

You can control the interactivity of QuickTime movies in a number of ways. You already know about some:

• You can prevent any interaction with the user at all by setting the parameters CONTROLLER="False", AUTOPLAY="True", and KIOSKMODE="True". The user can't stop the movie, rewind it, or save it.

• You can provide the normal QuickTime plug-in controls by embedding a movie with the default settings the user can start and stop the movie, jump to any point in the movie's timeline using the slider, control the sound volume, and save the movie to disk.

• You can target QuickTime Player, giving the user the additional abilities to add the movie to the Favorites list, step through the movie frame by frame, play the movie at a different screen size, and adjust the video (brightness, contrast) and audio (bass, treble, and balance).

• You can use...