switching quicktime with javascript

[crawford13]

I want to embed a video to a web page but I also want to add a couple of hyperlinks using images that will change the src value of the embed video to display the video from the selected hyperlink which will indicate the new src file name so that it just changes the movie to a new movie. Would this be done in JavaScript? If so, can you point me to a site that gives me some examples on how to do this. Thanks!

[Newsgroup_User]

Sounds like your best bet would be to use Flash, but I'm not really sure
what you're doing. WHat's your process (w/o the tech, what does the user
see and why?)

hth,

Jon

"crawford13" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I want to embed a video to a web page but I also want to add a couple of
> hyperlinks using images that will change the src value of the embed video
> to
> display the video from the selected hyperlink which will indicate the new
> src
> file name so that it just changes the movie to a new movie. Would this be
> done
> in JavaScript? If so, can you point me to a site that gives me some
> examples on
> how to do this. Thanks!
>

[crawford13]

what i want to do is keep the user on the same page but change the quicktime movie that is playing by clicking on a thumbnail.
so far i am having no luck with this. i thought about flash which would be alot easier but the client doesn't want it like that.

[Newsgroup_User]

🙂 sorry, the first post was just hard to read for some reason.

Unless you either use flash (which is a 'large' movie) or construct the
thumbnails inside your Quicktime movie, it's not possible to do. You
*could* use an iframe, which is like a window in your site that would
'showcase' the picked movie, but it would actually refresh on it's one (just
not te rest of the page).

Otherwise, you coudl do it with a page refrewsh, or like mentioned use
Flash. You're going to need some type of containiner within that object to
control what gets loaded - if HTML does it then you're going to have to
refresh the page by the nature of the beast.

You might also mention to your client that Flash has much higher adoption
than Quicktime.

HTH,

Jon