Sorry, but this list is for extension development and discussion of how to create extensions. You should instead ask this question on the Joomla forum. Here's the direct link to it: http://forum.joomla.org/
Don't embed quicktime. Use the HTML5 video tag instead. The same people who are quicktime compatible will be HTML5 compatible. Just rename your .mov file to .mp4 and use the following:
That's not entirely true, I believe there is a Quicktime player plugin
for Windows that works with MSIE which most definitely doesn't support
HTML5 video in all incarnations. I also believe that installing iTunes
results in Quicktime being installed as well.
<alonzo.tur...@subtextproductions.com> wrote:
> Don't embed quicktime. Use the HTML5 video tag instead. The same people who
> are quicktime compatible will be HTML5 compatible. Just rename your .mov
> file to .mp4 and use the following:
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Sam, your right that's not entirely true. However, Internet Explorer 9 and 10 support the H.264 video codec in HTML5 video tags. Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 do not support the HTML5 video tag. There is a quicktime plugin which can be installed, which will allow internet explorer or any other supported browser to play a quicktime movie. But, nowadays all quicktime movies are H.264 encoded by default. Why use an old technology to display these videos? If an end user is running IE6 they have bigger problems than the quicktime plugin. Installing iTunes on Windows does ask if you want to install QuickTime, but doesn't just install it for you by default.
Again, you're correct. My statement was not entirely true. I still believe it is a better idea to embed quicktime movies as HTML5 compatible videos than as QuickTime embeds. I don't actually have the figures at hand, but I'm willing to hazard a guess that there are more users running IE9 than there are running IE8 with the quicktime plugin installed. My opinion regarding IE 6 and 7 should be eminently clear from this post.
