Using QuickTime to play Cisco IP/TV content

My company started making some content available via Cisco IP/TV about a year ago. Since I prefer to use OS X over Windows (and am fortunate enough to have the choice), I quickly figured out how to play that content using the QuickTime Player directly. (Naturally, the IP/TV plug-in only works with IE under Windows.) The same tricked worked on a PC with QuickTime 6.5.2.
Since QuickTime 7 (all versions, up thru 7.0.4), the content still plays on the Mac, but not the PC. I get a message, Error 47: Invalid URL. Any ideas? It seems the Windows fan boys would like scaleable content too...
PowerBook G4 15" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4) My screen reader came with a free computer!

Funny, I've given the same advice to so many people.
I thought that a week was enough time to assume no reply would be forthcoming.
color me mistaken!
I have actually solved this problem.
here's what was wrong and how I solved it:
1. The above code does work, in that it loads a quicktime player, and will play the stream.
However, the reliability and quality are quite poor.
2. Disable and intro or outro mp3 file you may have set up to play on your broadcast. At least under shoutcast, this is a source of many errors in terms of establishing a connection with Quicktime, and then suddenly changing the content, bitrate, sample rate and often the content tag.
3. link to a quicktime file using the QTSRC tag.
this will tell quicktime that regardless of your ultimate conent (real time live stream which is theoretically not supported) that you want the browser plugin to use quicktime anyway.
Example Code:
[OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25" ]
[PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="http://shoutcastip:port/listen.pls" ]
[PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="false" ]
[EMBED PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
SRC="/quicktimefile_with_your_stream_embedded_init.mov" TYPE="image/x-quicktime"
WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25"
QTSRC="http://shoutcastip:port/listen.pls"
AUTOPLAY="flase" ]
[/EMBED]
[/OBJECT]
This is currently up and working fairly well.
Thanks for your reply.

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I've read the tutorial for both Quicktime 6 and 7 here, and anything else I could find about this, so please forgive me if this is a silly, or redundant question.
I've been trying to use Quicktime to embed a shoutcast stream for listeners who don't have access to, or aren't technically savy enough to open iTunes and type in a URL (there are a surprising number of these people.)
After reading several tutoirals, it seemed like the process would be quite simple. Open a new Quicktime player, connect to the playlist, save, and then link to or embed the file into an html document.
Another method was to embed the stream's IP itself using the same technique, only specify that the plugin is Quicktime.
These work. However, they don't work very well.
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[object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="300" height="25" VIEWASTEXT]
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Funny, I've given the same advice to so many people.
I thought that a week was enough time to assume no reply would be forthcoming.
color me mistaken!
I have actually solved this problem.
here's what was wrong and how I solved it:
1. The above code does work, in that it loads a quicktime player, and will play the stream.
However, the reliability and quality are quite poor.
2. Disable and intro or outro mp3 file you may have set up to play on your broadcast. At least under shoutcast, this is a source of many errors in terms of establishing a connection with Quicktime, and then suddenly changing the content, bitrate, sample rate and often the content tag.
3. link to a quicktime file using the QTSRC tag.
this will tell quicktime that regardless of your ultimate conent (real time live stream which is theoretically not supported) that you want the browser plugin to use quicktime anyway.
Example Code:
[OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25" ]
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[PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="false" ]
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WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25"
QTSRC="http://shoutcastip:port/listen.pls"
AUTOPLAY="flase" ]
[/EMBED]
[/OBJECT]
This is currently up and working fairly well.
Thanks for your reply.

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Store the files as native AVCHD files... OR
Convert the files to Quicktime
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If you've only got Mac's, you can still archive your AVCHD recordings; copy them to folders named or organized to your own spec's. AVCHD is a high-quality compression format, and they'll take up way less disk space than converted Quicktime MOV files. You can open and play all AVCHD movies quite easily with VLC player.
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In the interest of ripping this stuff with the least complexity possible I was wanting to use QTP, but it seems that using the "best" preset with a widescreen DV input provides a file that is only 640x360 encoded at 96kbps, which is a lot smaller than the input native and isn't really good enough for me sadly.
The stated data rate looks more like an audio data rate that a video or video + audio data rate. Since the preset must be compatible with both NTSC and PAL "standards," it appears Apple programmers lower, more universal settings for greater device compatibility.
I can select Device Native, but that would get me back into massive DV files again. Not sure if this would be better than using the Vidi Firewire Capture would be better or not than this setting?
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Either way, at a couple of hours long the timeline within QTP becomes too "small" to be able to select bits to cut with any accuracy as it is not zoomable unlike iMovie, but putting them in iMovie would then start with the old thumbnailing again...
The QT 7 Pro Player "time line" is zoomable to some degree. This "zoom" capability is related to the size of the player. If you expand the size of the player to fill your screen as much as possible, you can "scrub" the playhead in smaller relative increments. Basically you should start your edits by expanding the player as large as your display allows and scrub the playhead to the rough area of your edit and then refine the position of the playhead using the fast play and jog controls in the A/V pallet and finally use the left/right arrow keys to select the exact frame you wish to edit. With some practice, you should find this work flow to be fairly quick if/when you know what and how you wish to edit the file.
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What I was doing to remove the bits I don't want in iMovie was to create a project, include the bits I want, then delete the events using the option to only remove unused elements. This is a yet further step which takes a long time, but then gives me chunks of files I can queue in handbrake and then stitch back together using QTP.
Most strategies fall into either a "subtractive" or and "additive" work flow. I normally make "rough cuts" in the first pass and place the results in an folder/bin for further refining later. Once I have everything sorted and trimmed, I then merge/join the DV clips to create a single file which is then converted all at once to the target compression format or, in frequent instance, to several different compression formats or variations dependent on target use—burning to DVD, burning to BD, TV viewing, posting to the internet, etc.
I just tried a native capture with QTP, and it gives me the following video settings:
DV, 720 x 576 (1024 x 576), Millions
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), 4.0 (L R _ _), 32.000 kHz
1024 x 576 pixels (Actual)
If I encode this with Handbrake using the Apple Universal I get:
H.264, 720 x 592, Millions
AAC, 2 channels, 32000 Hz
1033 x 592 pixels
I would normally encode the file using the source file standard. In my case that would the NTSC 720x480 (853X480) equivalent of your PAL 720x576 (1024x576) anamorphic DV import. Would also prefer the AAC audio track be encoded using a 48,0 KHz sampling rate at 160 Kbps since my DV audio is set for 16-bit/48.0 KHz. (I also include an DD5.1 passthrough at 448 or 640 Kbps if available.) You can create and save your own custom resets which is what I use for HandBrake conversions specifically targeting the TV2 device and which include additional analysis/motion prediction settings.
So it looks like getting QTP to encode into H.264 just won't do it well enough, even though it should be able to go better without extending beyond the limits of the source
If you are referring to the conversion of DV source files to H.264, then use the "Movie to MPEG-4" or "Movie to Quicktime" export option to enter your own custom target settings. However, nether of these export potions offer the same ease for setting up custom anamorphic encodes for custom dimensions as HandBrake does. (I personally prefer using HandBrake here.)
I think the size limit was CPU bound with it not keeping up with the input fast enough to real-time encode and thus stopping. It's not done it since.
That may well be the case. My old G5 processed files in handBrake at 4 to 6 time "real time." My MacBook Pro converts files in roughly "real time" using my custom HandBrake presets. On my new iMac the default TV2 HandBrake preset process at about 180 fps and at 70-90 fps using an even higher quality custom preset I just added. As you can see, the different CPUs involved cam make quite a difference in conversion speed.

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