Hi Arthur, I came across your module and was wondering how hard it would be to get it to work with quicktime files. The functionality I require would be identical, would just need to have a check box somewhere that would alter what your code spits out.

I want to use quicktime's QTNEXT tags to play one quicktime file after another. Why not use flash you ask? Well for screen casts, I'd prefer to use a higher quality H.264 file, text and the screen are just a lot more legible than flash, straight video too. I realize that more people have flash plugins installed than quicktime and I plan to make the main video flash care of blip.tv but I'd still like them to have the option to play the videos in quicktime too, in a TV channel like way where I can add promos to the front and back of each main feature.

Thanks
Richard
MyLittlePortal.com

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Hi-

The functionality of xspf_playlists is pretty different than how quicktime embeds work as far as I understand. You might be better off using something like http://drupal.org/project/swfobject_api to do the embedding. The point behind xspf_playlist is to separate the playlist from the embed. This allows you to serve a dynamic playlist to the player.

For what it's worth, new versions of flash support h.264, so I'm not sure there isn't a reason to use it. Granted it requires new versions of flash, but you're probably looking at a similar install base with quicktime. Well, not totally sure on that.

I haven't checked out the quicktime possibilities as all my projects have gone with flash. If there are other people interested in this, it might be worth polling the community to see what would make sense for most people.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing this issue