Im trying to open our demo reel in a pop up window from our site but I keep hitting a brick wall. On slower systems or slower connections, the popup opens but it has a white background which looks like it’s not doing anything at all but actually it is just preloading the ENTIRE movie before it begins. So I gave up and embedded the movie in an HTML page, very simple black background with the movie in the middle. Same movie file except in its own HTML page. When you load the page there is no white background, the quicktime player, complete with quicktime logo, shows up. It still needs to load but people actually know that something is there.
I guess I could stop right there since it works but personally I think it looks stupid. So I’ve been trying to fix it for a few days now with no luck. I thought it might be the javascript itself but then I used Kirupa’s tutorial for popup windows which seems to call the action from within Flash. No luck there either. So now I’m completely stumped. Any ideas?
Here’s a link to the site . . . visit the demo section to see what I’m talking about.
BTW, I don’t think its a matter of compressing the file because I have tested just about every way of compressing quicktimes with no real difference.
Thanks in advance!
