Live stream won't play on Windows

Question

We're using QTSS and QTBroadcaster to stream a live event. Everything works fine on Mac clients, but Windows clients simply can't get the stream unless it's opened directly in QuickTime Player. We have a website with an embedded link for the stream, and have tried setting it up using both a raw <embed> tag and javascript (per Apple's instructions).
Windows browsers display the page and the QT logo where the movie should be; no browser (Win or Mac) is able to display the stream directly, without an enclosing website. This is a change from last year, when we just put up a URL to the stream. It all worked last year; we didn't change a thing, and expected it to just work again. It doesn't. I am confused, frustrated, and more than a little discouraged and disgusted. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Answer 1

I was finally able to make the page work by adding attributes to pass to the QT plugin; it works using IE 7 and 8, and Safari; it does not work with FireFox on any platform (Windows or Mac), so we directed FireFox users to view the link directly in the QT Player or use a different browser.
Use the "Download the JavaScript files" link at http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html and save the file according to the instructions on that page. Then use the following bit of JavaScript on your page to embed the QT player, assuming the stream is at MY.WEBSITE.COM and is called QTMOVIE.SDP:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
QT_WriteOBJECT('samplemovie.mov', '540', '420', '',
'qtsrc', 'rtsp://my.website.com/qtmovie.sdp',
'autoplay', 'true',
'type', 'video/quicktime',
'emb#bgcolor', 'black',
'align', 'middle');
</script>
The embedded player (in this example) will be 540x420. It's important to include the player size, otherwise it tends to get masked and you will see only part of the picture (for example, a 200x160 piece in the middle).
Hope this saves someone else a little trouble.
Message was edited by: Daniel Dobkin