Apple QuickTime 6.4 - Manual (Page 10)

10 Chapter 1 Getting Started With QuickTime
Playing Movies in QuickTime Player
You can use QuickTime Player to play media located on your computer’s hard disk, a
CD, or the Internet. Later on, you may want to fine-tune the way QuickTime is set up,
but you can get started playing movies right now.
To play a movie using QuickTime Player:
1 If the movie is on your hard disk or a CD, find the file and double-click it. If the movie is
on the Internet, open QuickTime Player, choose File > Open URL, and enter the URL
(the Internet address) for the movie file.
2 In QuickTime Player, click the Play button (with the right-pointing triangle).
You can also open a movie by choosing File > Open Movie or, in Mac OS X, by dragging
a media file to the QuickTime Player icon in a Finder window or in the Dock.
Playing Movies in a Web Browser
Many websites use QuickTime for video, audio, and animation. On some websites,
movies play automatically. On other sites, you need to click an image of the movie or a
play button.
When a movie plays in a webpage, you typically see controls you can use to play,
pause, fast-forward, rewind, and adjust the volume of the movie.
To play a movie in a web browser:
1 Navigate to the website.
2 Follow the site’s instructions to download the movie file or watch the movie “live.”
With QuickTime Pro, you also have the option of saving the movie to your hard disk (if
the author of the movie allows it). If the movie is a Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
movie, it is saved as a small “reference movie” that points to the stream.
The QuickTime website has a number of QuickTime movies (including the latest
Hollywood movie trailers) that you can view in your web browser.
See www.apple.com/quicktime.
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