What's New in QuickTime 5
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The QTVR Splitter, a movie export component, takes a QTVR version 2.x multinode movie and exports a set of single-node movies with relative URL links to each other.
The QTVR Splitter works by changing all of the link hotspots to URL hotspots, leaving any previously defined URL or undefined (blob) hotspots unchanged. If the QTVR Flattener component is present, the Splitter gives you the option of using it to add fast-start data to the movies, including previews for panorama nodes. Additionally, the Splitter will generate a text file with HTML embed tags for each movie created.
When you display the movies' output by the Splitter using the QuickTime Plugin, clicking the relative URL links opens the other nodes in the browser window. When loaded in a frame, the Plugin loads the new movies in the same frame.
When the user clicks a link which displays a multinode movie split this way, the first thing to download is the hotspot track, which is live immediately. Then any preview data is downloaded, and finally the tiles download in and are placed over the background grid or preview. The user can jump to another node at any time, and only the nodes they visit are downloaded, unlike a multinode movie, which does not allow navigation until the entire file has downloaded, and therefore downloads all of the nodes, whether the user visits them or not.
What's New in QuickTime 5
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