Play Quicktime Movie in Browser

[nutthick]

I've been asked to look into using FM as a method of cataloging quicktime movies on a web server. Basically someone looks up a match based on date, location etc, and the QT movie appears on the screen for them to watch. I've done a quick mockup which has presented two problems that I'm hoping someone can help with:

1. The system will host about 4Tb of movies, over several HDDs. I don't want to embed the movies into FM. Is there a way to make FM link to the file in question?

2. At the moment, when I click on the container in IE, it tries to download the picture, rather than play the movie. How do I make it play the movie.

Thanks

[Fred777]

if your movies have a standard naming convention (movie1, movie2, movie3) and THAT data is stored in the database in a field, you can create a button that can be scripted to open the corresponding movie file in the browser via the openURL script step.

did i confuse you enough??

[nutthick]

Hi Fred777, thanks for the post. I had already tried that with no luck. Seeing as you mentioned it I thought I'd try it again and it worked! Must have screwed up before.

Do you know of any good tutorial material for learning how to build filemaker into web pages. I would like to look at putting my own html onto the pages, but don't know where to start.

Thanks again

[FMWebschool]

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