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Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Contents
- Welcome to QuickTime
- Getting Started With QuickTime
- Using QuickTime Player Controls
- Playing Movies in QuickTime Player
- Playing Movies in a Web Browser
- Viewing QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) Movies
- Adjusting QuickTime Settings
- Viewing and Modifying Still Images
- Using QuickTime to Play MIDI Files
- Finding Movies Quickly Using QuickTime Favorites
- Viewing Information About a File
- QuickTime on the Internet
- Making and Editing QuickTime Movies With QuickTime Pro
- Opening and Converting Files With QuickTime
- Working With Movie Tracks
- Viewing QuickTime Movie Tracks
- Copying a Track From Another QuickTime Movie
- Extracting Individual Tracks
- Disabling Individual Tracks
- Working With Audio Tracks
- Working With Text Tracks
- QuickTime Sprite and Tween Tracks
- Specifying Languages for Individual Tracks
- Changing a Movie’s Appearance With Transparent Tracks
- Editing QuickTime Movies
- Selecting Part of a Movie
- Cutting, Copying, or Deleting a Section of a Movie
- Replacing a Section of a Movie
- Combining Two QuickTime Movies Into One
- Presenting Multiple Movies in the Same Frame
- Adding Special Effects to a QuickTime Movie
- Pasting Graphics and Text Into a Movie
- Resizing, Skewing, or Rotating a Movie
- Changing a Movie’s Shape With a Video Mask
- Adjusting Individual Movie Options
- Advanced Concepts
- Keyboard Combinations forPlayingQuickTimeMovies
- Glossary
- Index
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QuickTime on the Internet
This chapter describes how to use QuickTime to play
movies in your web browser and prepare movies for
QuickTime streaming.
Playing Movies on the Internet
With the QuickTime plug-in (part of the free QuickTime software), you can play most
multimedia you encounter on the Internet within your web browser. For more
information, see “Playing Movies in a Web Browser” on page 10.
Getting the Best Playback With Internet Movies
If movies you’re watching on the Internet don’t play properly, check your QuickTime
connection speed setting. Choose QuickTime Player > Preferences > QuickTime
Preferences. (In Windows, choose Edit > Preferences > QuickTime Preferences.)
If you select a speed slower than your actual connection speed, QuickTime tries to play
versions of the movie authored for the match closest to the slower connection speed.
The resulting movie may be smaller in size and lower in quality than your connection
can actually support.
If you select a speed faster than your actual connection, QuickTime playback may
stutter or appear jerky because it has more data than your connection can support.
If you’re unsure of your connection speed, check with your Internet service provider
(ISP).
Saving an Internet Movie on Your Hard Disk
If you have QuickTime Pro, you can save a downloaded movie viewed in your web
browser to your hard disk, so that you can watch the movie when you’re not connected
to the Internet. (The movie must be authored to allow for saving.) If it’s a streaming
movie, QuickTime Pro saves a small “reference movie” that points to the stream.
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