Streaming Media Metafiles Part Three: QuickTime

QTSRC
If you're embedding your QuickTime movie in a Web page, then there's an easy, no-metafile-needed way to point the QuickTime plugin at the streaming server to get the file. You simply add a QTSRC parameter to your EMBED tag.

<embed type="video/quicktime" height="240" width="320" qtsrc="rtsp://myserver.com/mymovies/myquicktimemovie.mov"></embed> QuickTime supports many of the kinds of features found in RealPlayer and Windows Media metafiles by adding parameters to the embed tag itself. You can see the whole set of options supported by the embed tag in Apple's QuickTime documentation.

RTSPtext
The simplest form of QuickTime metafile is a simple two-line text file. Just open your favorite text editor and type RTSPtext, followed immediately by the rtsp URL to the movie on your server.

RTSPtextrtsp://myserver.com/mymovies/myquicktimemovie.movSave this with a .mov extension and you're ready to link to it from your Web page. If you EMBED using an RTSPtext metafile, you should use the SRC parameter of the EMBED tag rather than the QTSRC parameter. Why would you use this? One reason might be that it lets you change the video content on your page without having to edit the page. You can update RTSPtext file as needed without making any changes to the web page itself.