Embedding Quicktime Movies in a webpage

Let us assume that you have a table with name and URL fields in order to store your media file information.

You can get your query via CF from database and make an output and generate your dynamic HTML page.

Such as

<cfoutput query="myMediaQuery">
<img src="#url#" alt="#name#" />
<br />
#name#
<br />
<br />
</cfoutput>

This is a simple example for image output. You just need to use this kind of output for your media file.

I hope it is clear.

You just need to save in the database the reference link for the movie files and use them to populate your dynamic generated pages.

This is probably in general data output in CF. I would first suggest to create a basic structure to generate dynamic image list tool then use same approach for your movie files.

Thanks for your replies.

Its using a Mac streaming server and embedding quicktime into a webpage is the best way I've been told. I'd like to stick with quicktime anyway.

I can create the html page template ok. The problem is I need to store tag information, movie title, clip size etc. As QT movies are being uploaded stright to the Mac server, I cannot think of a way to link the movie to the data.

Can anyone help?

Thankyou

By the way, I would suggest to check out the FLV file format for these kind of approaches.

:)

If you know how you can embed a single QT movie into a webpage the rest is just creating basic output pages from your DB.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html

While looping with your resultset, instead of the file names, you will put your CF parameters which refers your movie location and names.