Streaming H.264 files

[fatespawn]

I am trying place some streaming H.264 files on a my web page. I'm a noob at this web design stuff and I'm using iWeb. I've been able to successfully create the H.264 files and place them on my page with ffmpegx, but they don't seem to "stream." I know that QT can export a "streaming" format and I was hoping there was an option in ffmpegx to do the same. The QT streaming exports are reported to be working well but the ffmpeg conversions are load-then-play videos. Suggestions?

-Fate

[fatespawn]

Any takers?

-fate

[patlabombe]

This is a wild guest but it should work (I have not tried it). Open the movie you just encode using Quicktime Pro. Choose "Export" and select the option "Movie to MPEG-4". Press "Options". In the resulting window, choose file format "MP4". Under the video tab, choose "Passthrough" and under the sound tab, also choose "Passthrough". The option to enable streaming is, guest what, under the tab "Streaming". Let us know if it worked.

[OmegaSupreme]

The problem is iWeb, it defaults to manual play and there is no way to change the coding other than to do it manually. You have to edit the file ending in ".js", that is located in the folder with the movie file, and change all instances of "autoplay=false" to "autoplay=true".

[fatespawn]

Omega,

Thanks for the reply. I have been able to successfully create H264 movies with QT Pro and drag and drop them in iWeb and they properly stream. Movies converted with ffmpegx, however have to fully load before they can be played.

patlabombe,

Thanks too. I was hoping for a workflow that led directly from ffmpegx to dragging the resultant H264 file to iWeb. I will try the "passthrough" method you describe and report back and see how fast it is.

Like I mentioned, I love the speed of ffmpegx (especially with my new G5 hack) and hope to avoid QT all to gether.

-fate