How might one link to a QT movie in a webpage and have it pop up a QT player while doing http protocol . I have done it with RTSP and streaming

like this :: in a webpage
<a href="300_ref.mov" target="_blank"><img src="img/300.png"/></a>

and a reference movie that really is a text file ( 300_ref.mov )
RTSPtextRTSP://208.nnn.nn.nn/300.mp4

this will open the QT Player and you can resize it.

the only way to deliver via http -- that i have found is to embed it and you are "stuck" with the H & w in the tags.

So you cannot 'grab' the player and scale it
<embed src="mov/301.mp4" width="320" height="256" autoplay="true" loop="false" controller="true" playeveryframe="false" bgcolor="#999999" kioskmode="false" targetcache="true" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/"></embed>

what i wish to do is have the QT player just open with my mov in it.
deliver from an apache server http from the same server that has the html

<a href="mov/301.mp4">Movie</a>

It won't open in quicktime on my cmputer though and there's no way you can gurantee it does.

I think you'll find an answer at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=390856. Look for an answer in that thread by QuickTimeKirk, his last two near the bottom of the page.

Does Qiicktime automatically embed itself in a blank page? I didn't know that. I think Mediaplayer does that too now and it's terrible.

BTW the sample QuickTimeKirk links to results in a "Choose action" dialog for me.

What do you mean, Pandy? AFAICS, there's some JS to embed it. Or am I wrong? I didn't look that closely.

For me, his links open the QuickTime Player on Mac OS. Just like when I want to see an Apple keynote on their site.

Not everyone has QuickTime installed. Normally a link to a quicktime movie would open in my default player. This one didn't. Even if I had QuickTime, which I occasionally do, I wouldn't have mp4 associated with it.

I know that's true, especially on PC.
Apparently your default player doesn't have the needed codecs to play .mov and/or .mp4 files. I had such problems with the PC of my neighbor a while ago too.
Anyway, QuickTime doesn't support all formats either. I installed Flip4Mac and Perian, that both add codecs to QT.

You misunderstand. I normally have no problem with mp4, but even if I have quicktime installed I don't associate it with mp4, so tricks to make the QuickTime player behave are wasted on me. In this case it seems the tricks made my default choices not work.

Point is, you can't know what player people use for different formats. Don't know about Mac, but on Windows both MediaPlayer and QuickTime have become pretty cumbersome, so a lot of people avoid them.

I have plenty of players installed. Primarily, of course, QuickTime, as it comes with the OS. Before I had all those codecs to among others also read PC media files, I had MediaPlayer and RealPlayer. Till I heard of Flip4Mac, which gives me QT controls on PC media files on the web.

My neighbor couldn't read .mov files I sent her that came from her own digital camera in WMP. She couldn't get them on her PC, so I put it on mine and sent it. Only, then she couldn't play them. So I installed QT on her PC. The movies played, but they were quite heavy. She desinstalled QT, and everything turned to normal. She could put her movies from her camera on the PC and read them with her WMP. I have no idea what happened and even more why. I guess a PC will always be a mistery to me.