download a .mov file in FrontPage

[long eddy]

Happy new year all,

I've uploaded a .mov file to a FP web.

I'd like to put a link so that the user can click and the video clip can be
shown.

As in:

<a href="delaware.mov">Click to download the video clip [2,000 kb]</a>

The .mov file is called

delaware.mov

In preview mode in FrontPage, I double click and it plays.

However, when I go to the site and click on the link, the page load with
just the icon of a .jpg file - with no video.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Wishing all a happy and healthy new year
Eddy

 

[coreybryant]

Are you wanting to embed the movie? if so, try something like:
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
width="320" height="240"
codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<param name="src" value="pathtomovie.mov?embed">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<embed type ="video/quicktime" src="pathtomovie.mov.mov?embed"
width="320" height="240" autoplay="true" controller="false">
</embed>
</object>

-Corey Bryant

 

[Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv]

Dear Eddy,

If you don't feel like embedding your movie (it is very bad form to
initialize the QuickTime player on a visitors machine without warning,
which is exactly what embedding does - makes the page very slow, as
well), try using the absolute URL in your code, like this:

<a href="http://example.com/delaware.mov" target="_blank">Click to
download the video clip [2,000 kb]</a>

Also, inform visitors BEFORE the link that it is a QuickTime movie, and
offer a link to the free player, in case they don't have it. Full
information on doing this can be found at:
http://www.apple.com/about/webbadges/

Good luck, Eddy. I am expecting epic stuff from you.

Nicholas Savalas - http://savalas.tv
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