Video with QuickTime

This is quick recipe for adding a popup window that include a Quicktime movie that starts playing immediately.

First the POP Up Window

In the HEAD section of your HTML document, add the following Javascript to open a 240x240 sized window.

<script language="JavaScript">
function popupTitleURL(url, title) {
 myw = window.open("", 'crmPopup',
 'width=240,height=240,location=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes');
 myw.document.write("<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>");
 myw.document.write(title);
 myw.document.write("</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>");
 myw.document.write("<embed src='");
 myw.document.write(url);
 myw.document.write("' autoplay='true'");
 myw.document.write(" KIOSKMODE='True'");
 myw.document.write("' width=200 height=200>");
 myw.document.write("</embed>");;
 myw.document.write("</BODY></HTML>");
 myw.moveTo(10,10);
}

We've set KIOSKMODE to true to add a small amount of security. When KIOSKMODE is set to TRUE, the plug-in does not include its pop-up menu in the movie controller and does not allow drag and drop to save the movie. Please be aware that there are many ways of capturing the videos, so don't feel your movies are seriously protected.

Add the movie

In the body of the HTML document add a Javascript call to that function with a URL that points to your Quicktime file.

  <script language=JavaScript>
  < !--
    document.write('<a href="javascript:popupTitleURL(\'mymovie.mp4\',\'GHC\')">Play Movie via JS</a>');
  //-- >
  </script>