Video Pop-Up Link Maker

Josh Kinberg made this cool hack: embedthevideo.com - Video Pop-Up Link Maker

You simply add the links to your video and blogpost...and it gives you the code for a pop-up video player. Why is this cool?

Quicktime videos allow for "fast start"...which means the video starts playing even as it's downloading the rest of the video. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not allow Quicktime to fast start. An IE user clicks on a QT video and nothing happens. It looks broken.  The video doesn't start playing till the whole video has downloaded...meanwhile you get no progress that it is downloading. Usually you end up clicking away because you think something's wrong. This is a big reason why PC users who use IE bitch about Quicktime.

Since so many people still use IE, Josh created this hack. Now when an IE user clicks on a QT video, a video pop-up box appears which allows the video to play immediately...and the user can see the video as they were intended to.

God bless us all.

Comments

[Dennis]

Awesome! You don't know how many people I have had to tell to wait because the file was downloading, or better yet, I told them to use Firefox. Now, it will work whether they are in Firefox or IE. Thanks for posting this.