Re: including hyperlinks

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:41:32 -0700, "Stephan Sloan"
<StephanSloan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Neil-
>
>Thank you for your help. I am going to try a dynamic page (.php) with a
>billboard that rolls over to the graphics with the hyperlinks I need. The
>issue will be synchronizing the .php page with the audio.

Well, you put in one set of <entry><ref /><param /></entry> tags for
each item in your playlist. In that way, a different PHP ads page is
displayed at the start of each song.

>I really appreciate your assistance please let me know where I can send $,
>beer, etc.

Beer to the usual address ;-)

Cheers - Neil

>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>
>> OK well we've tried the simple stuff, I guess this is where we bite
>> the bullet : You now need to investigate the HTMLView mode of the
>> player.
>>
>> Including this in your ASX file is enough to display a web page in the
>> player's video area :
>>
>> <ENTRY>
>> <TITLE>Second Entry</TITLE>
>> <REF href="http://www.yoursite.com/track1.wma"/>
>> <PARAM name="HTMLView"
>> value="http://www.yoursite.com/images/banner1.html"/>
>> </ENTRY>
>>
>> You can hopefully see that your banner1.html page must be quite
>> compact, and very well written (i.e. without javascript errors or
>> brokwn HTML) cause you're now hosting it in the player itself.
>>
>> Script commands will behave differently now you're inside a web page
>> *inside* tha player. Also, errors in the web page and javascript are
>> likely to be interpreted wildly differently than in a standalone
>> browser - use the force wisely, Luke.
>>
>> In the centre of that web page you'd add your banner1.gif image,
>> probably using CSS relative (percent) positioning to make sure it
>> stays centred no matter how much the players now-playing area is
>> resized.
>>
>> Other alternatives which may be more suitable include using real
>> player or quicktime with SMIL files, which allow you to natively
>> display clickable images, text, video and audio in user-defined
>> display areas, rather than WMPs limited pre-defined play areas.
>>
>> HTH
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:15:01 -0700, "Stephan Sloan"
>> <StephanSloan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Neil-
>> >
>> >I have used banners but I'm having trouble synching the banner with the
>> >audio content. Also the banner is very small for the logos and icons I have,
>> >they just aren't recognizable at 32 pixels high. These problems are what led
>> >me to focus on the video pane of the WMP. I was hoping to produce a series of
>> >short video programs (with stil images of my logos/icons) which I can
>> >sequence and fire with an .asx file. However I can't figure out how to make
>> >the video pane a hyperlink. I really appreciate you r help and guidance here.
>> >Thank you.
>> >
>> >"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:46:01 -0700, "Stephan Sloan"
>> >> <StephanSloan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Neil-
>> >> >
>> >> >Thank you for your response. I am trying to coordinate the delivery of a
>> >> >graphic that is a hyperlink to the video frame of the Windows Media Player. I
>> >> >have used Windows Media Encoder to send a script to pop an IE window however
>> >> >that is cumbersome and many are not pleased that I'm poping them windows or
>> >> >have the scripts turned off. I need to coordinate a clickable billboard with
>> >> >the audio message.
>> >>
>> >> OKe, you can probably use a Banner for this effect. Banners are
>> >> limited to 194x32 in size (which as you realise is none of the
>> >> available standard web banner sizes !). It'll be shown as normal if
>> >> it's less than 194x32, and cropped if it's larger than that.
>> >>
>> >> To do this, first create an ASX file (a playlist) which tells the
>> >> player to reserve banner space :
>> >>
>> >> <ASX version="3.0" bannerbar="fixed">
>> >> <ENTRY clientskip="no">
>> >> <TITLE>My Audio Clip 1</TITLE>
>> >> <REF HREF="http://www.yoursite.com/track_1.wma"; />
>> >> <BANNER HREF="http://www.yoursite.com/images/banner1.gif";>
>> >> <ABSTRACT>Click here to go to our Web site.</ABSTRACT>
>> >> <MOREINFO HREF="http://www.yoursite.com/advert.html"; />
>> >> <!-- The text in the Abstract element displays as a
>> >> ToolTip when the mouse hovers over the banner
>> >> graphic. When a user clicks the banner, the URL
>> >> given in the MoreInfo element opens in the
>> >> browser. -->
>> >> </BANNER>
>> >> </ENTRY>
>> >> </ASX>
>> >>
>> >> You can have multiple <ENTRY /> elements, one for each piece of audio
>> >> or video media. Each ENTRY can have a different banner href (image).
>> >>
>> >> You can genenrate these files easily with a database + script cause
>> >> they're so simple - in effect rotating the banner images for each
>> >> visit to the playlist.
>> >>
>> >> So now you've got that file - change the paths and media URLs to your
>> >> real website, save the modified text in notepad as "All Files", say as
>> >> "myplaylist.asx" and use the ASX file as the URL for media player,
>> >> rather than the original http://www.yoursite.com/track_1.wma
>> >>
>> >> HTH
>> >> Cheers - Neil
>> >>
>> >> > Sending the graphic to the video window of the Windows
>> >> >Media Player is the ideal as far as I can determine. I am grappling with what
>> >> >other details to mention as I am not very experienced with this. I do not
>> >> >intend to be vague I' just not experienced here. I thank you for your
>> >> >response and assistance.
>> >> >
>> >> >"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:18:05 -0700, "Stephan Sloan"
>> >> >> <StephanSloan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >I want to send hyperlinks to the video window of the WMP. Does anyone have
>> >> >> >experience with this?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yes, I do but your question is opaque. Please explain what you're
>> >> >> trying to do, as an open ended question without details is impossible
>> >> >> to answer ;-)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers - Neil
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

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