Hello I have had success using the link to file and scripty lightbox actions to open an swf in a lightbox window…
But!
The movie plays very very slow and jumpy.
Doing the same thing works fine with quicktime movies but I want to set up both options.
Could it be a preview problem?
Anton
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I was noticing some preview stutter problems with QuickTime while
testing my new ScriptyLightbox2 Action (which you should definitely
try for this), but on a normal browser the movies plays just fine. I
am guessing you may just be seeing an issue with the preview system.
WebKit is not quite the same as Safari, and I make a point to test in
Firefox as well.
Walter
On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:22 AM, anton wrote:
Hello I have had success using the link to file and scripty lightbox
actions to open an swf in a lightbox window…But!
The movie plays very very slow and jumpy.
Doing the same thing works fine with quicktime movies but I want to
set up both options.Could it be a preview problem?
Anton
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Yep tried the SL2 same problem though. tried previewing in all browsers same problem. Perhaps the way I have written the flv or the swf skin is dodgy (using a trial version) is the problem.
If only quicktime ruled the world!
The new SL2 is good I like the fact we do away with the link to file action. but on a design issue I would have the black border much thinner half as much perhaps, personal taste of course
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There is actually a practical reason for this border – several, now
that I think about it. First, look at the movie on a Snow Leopard Mac
without QuickTime 7 (re) installed. QuickTime X shows its controller
below the movie whenever you mouse over the movie, without allowing
that controller space to influence the outer dimensions of the movie
itself. The controller fades in and out, and no matter what vertical
dimension you set for your movie, you can’t get that controller to
play nice and push the bottom of the movie up to match. The best way I
could find to fix this was the fat border all around, anything else
looked unbalanced most of the time. Another reason for this is the
poor unwashed masses yearning to use Safari or Firefox, but seemingly
constrained to IE or another backwards browser. They don’t see the
tasteful shadow separating your content visually from the rest of the
page, and for them, this big stinky-marker border is a reminder that
this element that just appeared here is separate from the rest of the
page.
Walter
On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:40 AM, anton wrote:
but on a design issue I would have the black border much thinner
half as much perhaps, personal taste of course
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That makes very good sense. I love the way you talk about ie gives me goose bumps!
If I may draw you further, can you tell me how to set up a detector so that the movie either flash or QT is played depending on the browser and its capabilities.
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I have some thoughts about that in the planning stage. If you look at http://diveintohtml5.org
, there’s a very nice setup where you use the HTML5 video tag, put
your standard formats inside that first, and then as a fall-back, add
a SWF/FLV object/embed as the second-to-the-last child inside that
video tag. If you really want to cover all your bases, then the last
child should be a JPEG image, for those who really can’t see any form
of moving pictures.
video
source (OGG/V for Mozilla)
source (mp4 or m4v for everyone else)
object (flash)
embed (more flash)
/object
img (jpeg)
/video
The video tag and its source sub-tags are completely ignored by
browsers that don’t adhere to the standards, so the next thing in line
is the Flash. I don’t know whether or how well this works with
MobileSafari and its brothers and sisters in the WebKit family on
other mobile devices (it would depend on the exact codec you choose
for your mpeg video), but the example I have seen works great on all
the Mac browsers and stutters along in Flash on IE.
Walter
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:01 AM, anton wrote:
That makes very good sense. I love the way you talk about ie gives
me goose bumps!If I may draw you further, can you tell me how to set up a detector
so that the movie either flash or QT is played depending on the
browser and its capabilities.
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Thanks walter I shall give it a go
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