I just found out my site does not display any of the sample videos (100+) on the iPhone.
I know iPhone shows QT movies, so I am assuming it has something to do with the Scripty Lightbox.
Is it an issue on iPhone with all lightboxes or just this particular version?
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I know iPhone shows QT movies
The iPhone shows YouTube-delivered SWF (FLV) video only in the
dedicated YouTube player and QuickTime content (in the right format)
only in the iPod software.
Other than that, no, I think in fact it doesn’t show movies. Sorry. 
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I tried a few different sites and it seems like lightboxes work with images but not movies. I thought Apple had some lightboxes, but I couldn’t find them. If anyone has an example for me to check on the iPhone please send it my way.
I wonder if 3.0 will allow lightboxes.
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I wonder if 3.0 will allow lightboxes.
The iPhone’s Mobile Safari has always worked with Lightbox-style
presentation of content, right from version 1.0. It has never
displayed movies of any kind - QT, Flash or other - within web pages.
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Exactly right, when a movie (that has been correctly encoded and
optimized for the iPhone) is found on a page a button appears over the
top of it. When clicked QT will open over Safari and play the movie,
the movie doesn’t get played in a plugin like it does on regular
browsers.
I would’ve thought that if the movies were encoded correctly (you can
use Freeway’s QT Reference Movie Action to do this) then they should
still play when on Lightbox. There’s nothing different about the movie
itself so it should just appear with a play button and then open in QT
when clicked.
Joe
On 11 Jun 2009, at 09:08, Keith Martin wrote:
I wonder if 3.0 will allow lightboxes.
The iPhone’s Mobile Safari has always worked with Lightbox-style
presentation of content, right from version 1.0. It has never
displayed movies of any kind - QT, Flash or other - within web pages.k
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How would one apply the QT Ref Movie Action when one doesn’t have the QT movie on the page?
With Scripty Lightbox you apply the action to an html box which has the Graphic Link to File action and Scripty Lightbox applied to it.
Any other thoughts?
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You could try linking to the movie as a separate page rather than the
file itself. Make a little page, just the size of the movie, place the
movie on it, and apply the QT Ref Movie Action to the movie. Then back
in your main page, use a normal link to that page from the graphic
thumbnail, and the ScriptyLightbox action should pick up the fact that
you’re linking to a page and draw an iframe the size of the movie on
your overlay screen. This will also allow you to make more than one
movie size on a page, I think. The only down-side would be the need to
make a separate page for each movie, but once you’ve set up a Master
Page, it shouldn’t be too onerous.
Walter
On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:38 AM, george wrote:
How would one apply the QT Ref Movie Action when one doesn’t have
the QT movie on the page?With Scripty Lightbox you apply the action to an html box which has
the Graphic Link to File action and Scripty Lightbox applied to it.Any other thoughts?
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Walter,
FYI, ScriptyLightbox does not display the page as you thought. I can get it to show pages (although it shows up as an image with the CSS removed), but in your example it just shows a blank box.
Oh well. It would be nice to be able to view videos via lightbox on the iPhone.
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So I was playing around with this again. I realized that iPhone needs m4v format - duh!
I figured I’d start off easy and drop a QT movie onto a blank page and apply the QT Ref Movie action. Everything went ok. Files for the movie and poster frame were created and uploaded fine.
When I view in Safari it works except there is no video.
On the iPhone I get a play button with a slash through it.
Any ideas what is going on? The m4v file went into the Resources folder and I’m not sure about the poster frame.
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