A Tutorial For Embedding QuickTime MOV

Thursday, January 12th, 2006
by Lockergnome

Embedding MOV files can be a daunting task for the web developer newbie. Here’s a tutorial on how to embed a QuickTime MOV into your webpage. Go ahead, add a little life to your pages!

Publishing QuickTime MOV files for people to view takes one of several forms. The simplest way to share a QuickTime movie is to simply upload the file to your hosting provider and create a link to the file. People clicking the link will either save your movie to their computer or wait for QuickTime to open and play the movie back. While this is the easiest way to share a QuickTime movie, it’s not the most elegant way to do it because some viewers still don’t understand how to watch a movie on the Web without play controls right their helping them out.

A better alternative is to embed the MOV file in you Web page. This is possible whether you are linking to the file from a blog or from a corporate video site. The process of embedding the movie is the same for virtually every circumstance. There are a few optional configurations, but the basics will get you started…

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3 Comments

SEO

March 8th, 2007
at 11:21pm

hi, i have tried to play a .mov file but i couldn’t. and what is the code i need to use to make it play on the website.

insurancegator

June 6th, 2007
at 3:09pm

Willow Wright

January 22nd, 2008
at 11:58am

I can embed QT .movs in an HTML page, when the .mov file is in the same directory.

I would like to be able to write a path to the .mov file. I have 25 movies, a number of which I’d like to embed in the page, but I don’t wan to clutter up my root directory with .mov files. I always get a ? when the embed or object code attempts to play the video.

Help! Even using an absolute path to the .mov file, it still won’t play unless the code page and the .mov file are in the same directory. That doesn’t make any sense to me at all.

Do you have any information on this kind of occurrance? And what is a work-around?

Thanks, WCW

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