Settings You Can Save
Some of the user settings that you can choose in QuickTime Player's Movie menu are saved along with the movie. You can use these settings to control the way a movie is displayed when you target QuickTime Player, much the same way you use Plug-in Helper to control the way a movie is displayed by the QuickTime plug-in.
These settings are applied only if the movie is played in QuickTime Player:
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Loop--equivalent to setting
LOOP="True"
for the plug-in.
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Loop Back and Forth--equivalent to setting
LOOP="Palindrome"
for the plug-in.
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Play Selection Only--selecting part of the movie in QuickTime Player and choosing Play Selection Only is equivalent to setting
STARTTIME
and
ENDTIME
for the plug-in.
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Play All Frames--equivalent to setting
PLAYEVERYFRAME="True"
for the plug-in.
The following settings are applied whether a movie is played in the QuickTime plug-in or QuickTime Player:
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Half Size--equivalent to setting
SCALE="0.5"
for the plug-in.
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Double Size--equivalent to setting
SCALE="2"
for the plug-in. For movies compressed with the Sorenson or H.263 video codecs, this is a good way to increase the display size of the movie without increasing its data rate or file size.
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Fill Screen--this has no equivalent for the plug-in. When you choose it, QuickTime Player scales the movie up to fill your entire screen. However, choosing Fill Screen scales the movie up to fill your screen. Viewers with larger or smaller screens get a big movie, but not necessarily the size of their full screen. It's rarely a good idea to save this setting for a movie you're putting on the Web.
Important
This is not the same as full-screen mode. In QuickTime Player, full-screen mode is set by choosing Present Movie. Full-screen mode is always cleared when the movie is saved using QuickTime Player.
The Half Size, Double Size, and Fill Screen settings also affect movie playback in the plug-in, but the plug-in gets its display area from the browser, so be sure to allocate the right amount of space in the
HEIGHT
and
WIDTH
parameters.
Tip
To make a QuickTime movie autoplay even when it's launched in QuickTime Player (equivalent to
AUTOPLAY="True"
for the plug-in), open the Properties window (Get Movie Properties), choose Auto Play from the right pop-up menu, and click the checkbox. This setting is saved with the movie.
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