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Special Features of the QuickTime Plug-in

The QuickTime plug-in has a lot of special features that you can control from HTML. You can tell the QuickTime plug-in to start playing a movie automatically or to wait until the user clicks the Play button. Or you can tell the QuickTime plug-in not to let users save the movie to disk, giving you some basic copy-protection. Or you can hide the movie controller, set the default audio volume, have the plug-in play a series of movies one after another . . . but wait! There's more!

The QuickTime plug-in has over 25 special features that can be controlled from HTML, and these features can be combined in hundreds of ways. You control the special features by inserting parameters in the <EMBED> tag. (The basic technique of putting a QuickTime movie in a Web page using the <EMBED> tag, and the <EMBED> parameters that control the browser, are described in Basic Training: Putting QuickTime in a Web Page)

This section describes some particularly cool features of the plug-in in detail, then lists all the parameters that the QuickTime plug-in understands.

Some Particularly Cool Features

Summary of QuickTime Plug-in Parameters

Plug-in Parameters and the <OBJECT> Tag


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