July 7, 2008 | HowTo, Power User

Even though Flash FLV movies have become something of an Internet standard, some sites persist in presenting movies in Quicktime format. Here’s how to view them if you have trouble playing them in your browser.

Reasons Quicktime movies might not play in your browser might include:

• You don’t have the latest Quicktime plugin installed.
• You don’t care to launch the Quicktime plugin.

I usually skip embedded Quicktime movies just because the plugin is so heavy. It takes a while to start up, and it takes up additional memory after it’s done. This is unlike the Flash plugin, which is always loaded since it’s needed for so many websites.

So what I do is just do a “View Source” on the page (View: Page Source in Firefox). Then I search for the Quicktime movie URL. You can do this by searching for the text string “.mov”. An example would be:

<param name="src" value="http://www.colorguides.net/movies/pantone_solid_colors_movie.mov"> </param><br />

Just get the URL:

http://www.colorguides.net/movies/pantone_solid_colors_movie.mov

Take it and paste it into VLC at the File: Open dialog.
Of course, this means that you need to have VLC installed, but you should already have it installed.

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