I haven't really used web posters before and have one embedded in a
test
page.
The poster will display in AOL's web browser, but when clicked, the
movie
seems to take a long time to load and the web poster just sits there
while my
status bar indicates that info is transferring from my site. The
"real"
movie
on my site has no web poster and begins playing immediately
(progressive
download)b no glitches. When I play the test poster page in IE, it
indicates that
there is a broken link. Again, there is usually no problem with
playing the
"real" movie (without the web poster) in IE.
Could somebody just take look at my source code, and tell me if i'm
doing
anything wrong.
The test page is
www.proactiveproduction.com/testposter.html
I see a couple of problems after looking at your HTML:
If your poster movie opens and plays locally, try doing a "Save As"
and be sure to check the "Make movie self-contained" box.
2) You use a relative URL in your HREF parameter. That's okay, but the
URL
in the HREF must be relative to the POSTER MOVIE, so your HTML
tells
QT to look for the movie at /Images/Movies/HiResHeli.mov
when it's really at /Movies/HiResHeli.mov
Either use the absolute URL of the movie, or specify
"../Movies/HiResHeli.mov"
A couple of lesser points--you don't want to autoplay the poster movie,
or
to display it with a controller (clicking the controller doesn't
activate the HREF).
To pass the parameters to the target movie, use the E< > syntax:
HREF="<url> E<param=value param=value>"
Here's corrected HTML (but you still need to fix the poster movie):
Hope this helps,
-Steve
ps, this is all spelled out in my book, "QuickTime for the Web" (Third
edition)
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