How to stream video using the College of Education’s QuickTime server

These steps will help youstream a movie file off the Collegeof Education’s Quicktimeserver. Please note that if youhave used iMovie and used their export feature of streaming Web Movie, small,you can start at step #7 because your file is already hinted.

1. Create your movie in asoftware application in which you are knowledgeable.

2. Make a request for afolder on the QuickTime server to Ryan Thomas (rthomas@uiuc.edu). Folders are created on an as needed basis and are only created forfaculty needing the space for instructional or research purposes.

3. Open the professional version of QuickTime Player. (Note: You know you have the professional versionof QT if you have import/export features under the File menu.)

4. Under File, select Open Movie in New Player.

5. Under File, select Export
Export your movie as a Hinted movie. Irecommend (as does Apple) using the naming convention: nameoffile_h.mov so that youknow that this is a hinted movie track. Note: hinted moviefiles will be larger than their original sources.

6. After creating yourhinted movie track, you need to upload the hinted file(s) to your folder on theQuicktime streaming server.

· Under the Apple Menu, select Chooser

· In the Chooser, selectApple Share and click on “by IP Address”

· Enter “qtss.ed.uiuc.edu”

· Login to the QTSS server with youname & password

· Select QTSS for the volume

7. If you have closed theQuickTime Player application, reopen it.

8. Under File, select Open URL (Note: at this point you will be making a referencedmovie file)

9. Enter the following URL:rtsp://qtss.ed.uiuc.edu/nameofyour folder/nameofyourhinted movie file.mov

10. Under File, select Save As

11. Save the movie as a self-contained moviefile. (Note: I recommend using thenaming convention: nameoffile_r.mov so that you know this is the referencedmovie file.)

12. Upload this referenced movie file to your regular webspace (not your Quicktime server space). This is the file that you embed or link to your web page andit should be stored with the .html file with which it is associated. Reference files arerelatively small. The tag youshould use for your html coding is: <embed img src=”nameoffile_r.mov”width=dimension of your movie (i.e. 160) height=dimension of your movie (i.e.120) controller =false (or true, depending on if you want the control strip toshow) loop=false (or true, depending on if you want the movie to loop)> --there are many things that can be done with this file. Check out http://quicktime.com for a complete list.

Updated 06/10/02, esp