Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little supportanddevelopment?

[Michael@BTW]

Great thanks Branden, I did change a few things which didn't change how it

worked on NS/MSIE on my OS 9 Mac, nor NS4.6 on my Win98 box, didn't think to

check it on the NT (originally using dither copy on the video graphics track

and straight alpha on the Flash track it was first showing black on the

WinNT machines, though if you restarted the movie after playing it once, it

would play fine. Since, I set both tracks to str8 alpha, which seemed to

make it play fine in the QT player, though using the embed tag it still

showed black on the Mac and Win98/NS4.6. Good to hear that it shows up on NT

now.


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From: "Branden Hall" <

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Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 2:51 PM

Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support

anddevelopment?



> Actually.. I am running MSIE 5.0 on NT 4 sp 5, and I see the transparency

> just fine...

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> Michael@BTW

> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 4:42 PM

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> Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash making QuickTime--why so little support

> anddevelopment?

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> If you want to observe the effect, you can here:

> http://www.bigtimeweb.com/netmercial/nethelpdemo/nethelpdemo.html

> flash track shows up as black (or white) when displayed over video in

> NS/MISE Mac and NT, though on (mine anyway) win98 machines it shows up

fine.

> When played in the QT player alone it usually seems to work.

>

> Since QT offers Flash the video support it so sorely lacks while Flash

> offers a nice, low k solution for creating interactive video files, it was

> my thought that making this effect work well would be beneficial to both

> companies, but what do I know, just being a developer...

>

> Guess your both just willing to let WMP own broadband (I'm sure M$ isn't

> currently working on a vector/interactive track for WMP, one that uses

only

> their own tools for development, of course, why would they???)

>

>

> > At 12:16 PM 5/2/0, Phillip Kerman wrote:

> >

> > As far as current live issues, I've seen some posts saying that

> > some-but-not-all browsers sometimes show problems with some-but-not-all

> > transparency in some-but-not-all SWF-enhanced QT, but I haven't locked

it

> > down to a concrete symptom description yet, much yet a steps-to-repro or

> > (the grail!) hidden cause.

>

> I can walk you through the steps to reproduce, its not very hard, export a

> Flash/QT track with flash over video and try to view it with the QT

player.

> As far as what machines it does or does not work on, well it doesn't work

on

> most with the embed tag and it does seem to work with most on in the QT

> player.

>

> >

> > Is there any particular area you'd like to see advanced, particularly

one

> > that could be driven by Flash development alone...?

> >

> > tx,

> > jd

>

> Yeah, the ability to embed a video file (I really don't care what format

as

> long as its not vivo;-) in Flash. I don't want the Flash player to _play_

> the video, just to be able to play it if the client has the appropriate

> plug-in.

>

> >

> >

> >

> >

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