QTL files. A little help?

[P-Worm]

I have a link on one of my pages that leads to a file being opened in a QT player. After spending the whole morning reading up on the subject, I am officially stuck and turn here for help.

My .qtl file plays fine on my computer, but it won't open the video when I upload everything to the web. Following is the links to the page where the file is supposed to play from, the video file, and the qtl file. Note that not all of the videos are uploaded so there are some dead links. The link considered right now is the "Large" link on the bottom left video with the harp and violin.

HTML page
QuickTime .mov file
QTL file

For reference, this is the code in the QTL file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?quicktime type="application/x-quicktime-media-link"?>

<embed
	autoplay="true"
	controller="true"
	type="video/quicktime"	
	quitwhendone="false"
	loop="false"
	src="http://home.comcast.net/~pworm420/videos/reception1L.mov"
	/>

Thanks for any help you can give.

P-Worm

 

[angelwatt]

The web server needs to be told how to handle qtl files.

 

[P-Worm]

The web server needs to be told how to handle qtl files.

Thanks for the link

If the .qtl technique does not work on your web server (you'll know if you see raw data in the browser rather than seeing the movie come up in QuickTime Player), you may need to ask your ISP or sysadmin to add the following MIME type to the server's configuration:


application/x-quicktimeplayer .qtl

If your provider is unwilling to do this, you can probably add the handler to an .htaccess file in your web server document root:

AddType application/x-quicktimeplayer .qtl

I can't get any of their videos to load either. So this is a problem with the ISP? Weird because I have seen this work hundreds of times, just not on this site or my own.

Does applying this .htaccess file solve my problem? I don't know anything about them, so I did some reading and came across this:

htaccess files must be uploaded as ASCII mode, not BINARY. You may need to CHMOD the htaccess file to 644 or (RW-R--R--). This makes the file usable by the server, but prevents it from being read by a browser, which can seriously compromise your security.

Compromising my security sounds like a bad thing.

Am I in way over my head? I thought this would be fairly straight forward. Should I just direct link to the file?

P-Worm

 

[angelwatt]

Compromising my security sounds like a bad thing.

You're misreading it. It's saying it would compromise security if it was readable by a browser, which it can't, and thus secure.

Using .htaccess files, while complicated looking, are good ways to solve these types of issues. At the site I linked, when I click on the links with the qtl files I get a download prompt and I can have it open in Quicktime, which I believe is the effect you're aiming for. I'm using Firefox. Though, at you site, when I click on the link for the qtl file I see the raw text of the file. I'd try the .htaccess file trick first to see if it resolves things.