Attached Link: http://www.mermaidstail.com/3dart/movies/or3-JeanieChange.htm

I'm running Poser on a G3 Mac (OS 9.1) with the latest QuickTime. The package generates a movie which plays from the local hard disk but which fails when uploaded from a website. Any ideas welcome.

What do you mean "Fails"? Do you mean you click on it and it doesn't play? Can the person download it to tehir local harddrive and run it there OK? If so, then the problem is with the Webserver. The Webmaster needs to set the proper MIME type for the .MOV (or whatever) extension. If they don't set a mime handler in the server, your browser won't handle it properly and may return an error or simply download the file (defaulting to application/octect stream for a MIME type). I THINK the proper mime type is: Extenstion: .MOV, .QT MIME TYPE: video / quicktime That should fix it.

Or else, if it's a large file, the server is transferring the movie and won't play it till the transfer is complete, which, depending on your connection speed, could be anywhere from a few minutes to all afternoon.

The movie dowloads but won't play. How does one ensure the MIME is set properly? I'm using an EMBED command created by GoLive and I think it has the type set.

I found the file or3-JeanieChange.MOV on your website. It downloads with a proper MOV icon, so I think the MIME type is not the problem. But if it is try putting type="video/quicktime" inside the embed. Like this: I have one at http://odin.prohosting.com/~doozy/cwalk/ see if it works for you. Your file or3-JeanieChange.MOV is reported by Quictime as not recognizable. Perhaps it was not saved as "cross-platform" or "self-contained"?

doozy, the type= command sets the mime type and can be used to override the server's defaults. If a webserver is set up properly then that command shouldn't be needed.

Attached Link: http://66.70.166.29/animation/royfinal.mpg

I have the most success loading my animation on my web server as .mpg files its the most widely readable digital video for the web i use media cleaner pro from terran interactive www.terran.com it compresses your files down reasonable size. and make sure your are NOT using one of those chessy free Hosts( geocities .etc.) they will only cause your anger and frustration if you are serious about showcasing your animation work on the internet. you better be prepared to pay little for a decent host that allows direct linking an streaming any thing less is just a waste of your time in my opinion

Love to use MPEG but POser on the Mac is QuickTime only. Any Mac users out there with access to converters?

If you look on commercial web sites, you will find MOV much more often than MPEG. Why is that, do you suppose? Also I think RealVideo and AVI are more common than MPEG.

I suspect it's because the WWW Consortium has adopted QuickTime as its standard rather than MPEG. MPEG suffers a number of image quality defects.

yes, but they are smaller in size i am on a mac so my default format is Apple's quicktime and i would prefer to use it all the time but i have been told that many PC users have problems with quicktime . MOV files and mpeg is more compatible. some poor souls( NOT ME!!) are still on dial up connections and cant wait for a 15 meg uncompressed quicktime movie to down load

For sharing with others (or even keeping for long periods of time on my HD) I used COMPRESSED Quicktime, not uncompressed. Face it, MPEG is also a form of compression. For Quicktime, try Sorenson compression, for example (depending on the MOV...) Quicktime 3 and later for Windows can play Sorenson encoded MOVs.