Purpose

To stream a movie from a website.

Prerequisities

Quicktime Pro from Apple (IT Manager has a license for it).

Quicktime Streaming Server (LAWR IT has this)

Optional: A way to convert movies to various formats (IT Manager has Roxio)

Step by step

1) Preparing media for streaming

2) Adding a hint track to a movie (this allows it to stream)

3) Create a poster frame

4) Embed movie in HTML

You can use the following code, filling in the italicized areas with your own information.

<div style="text-align: center;">
        <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-weight: 800;">TITLE OF MOVIE</p>
        <object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="320" height="256">
        <param name="src" value="poster_frame.mov">
        <param name="href" value="http://mackerel.lawr.ucdavis.edu/filename.mp4" width="320" height="256">
        <param name="autoplay" value="false">
        <param name="target" value="myself"
        <param name="loop" value="false">
        <param name="controller" value="false">
        <embed src="poster_frame.mov" target="myself" href="http://mackerel.lawr.ucdavis.edu/filename.mp4" width="320" height="256" autoplay="false" loop="false" controller="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download"></embed>
        </object>
    </div>

Further information

Apple Quicktime Tutorials