Embed QuickTime Plugin

This is a plugin that you can use to embed QuickTime files in TWiki webs.

Syntax Rules

• %EMBEDQT{filename="string" width="number" height="number"}%

EmbedQTPlugin Global Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, for example, %EMBEDQTPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Embeds QuickTime files in a TWiki page

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You need to install a QuickTime plugin on the browser to see the QuickTime content. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip EmbedQTPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/EmbedQTPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  data/TWiki/EmbedQTPlugin.txt,v	Plugin topic repository
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/EmbedQTPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  pub/TWiki/EmbedQTPlugin/sample.mov	Plugin sample movie
  pub/TWiki/EmbedQTPlugin/sample.mov,v	Plugin sample movie repository

• Test if the plugin is correctly installed:
  • A small QuickTime movie below:

%EMBEDQT{filename="http://twiki.org/p/pub/Plugins/EmbedQTPlugin/sample.mov" width="80" height="60"}%

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/DonnyKurniawan - 07 Aug 2003