Apr 7, 2008
fun and rhizomes
a little trickier than I first thought.
After Adrian must have said a million times that the rhizome.mov file and the rhizome.xml file needed to stay together, I still managed to forget this.
So, note to self: this is probably what you are doing wrong.
A quick recap:
download rhizome template
choose two videos (.mov files) and upload to server
open rhizome.xml file in textwrangler (or alternative text reader sans formatting)
input the url location of two vids, save (nb must remain titled ‘rhizome1.xml’)
upload rhizome1.xml file and accompanying rhizome.mov file (which can be renamed) These must be in the same folder as each other (and I have placed them in the same folder as the videos also)
copy and paste the ‘rhizome.mov’ file url into media player
don’t forget a poster image ….
et voila! (hopefully).
A few issues – first the video aspect ratio was way out (i.e stretched upwards as I had the dimensions 640×480 when it should be 640×240).
I changed this accordingly, but when I returned to my blog it wouldn’t play at all and said I needed additional plugins to play this file.
Uh, whatever computer. I mucked around a bit to no avail, but when I got home it was mysteriously working. Everything worked fine. Hmm. O, Why do you defy me, confuser?
I’ll do more tests on this later this week.