Originally Posted by jayeff

This code has been around for a quite a while for displaying still images in neatly formatted pages when they are called up "bare". It works just fine with type-ins or when another site provides a link to your image: then your server will redirect the request and deliver the pic up in its page. But if someone hotlinks the image itself via "img src", you will just see the usual red "x" (or nothing, depending on your browswer).

It doesn't matter how tricky you get, browser's will not allow you to deliver anything except an image if an image is what they were expecting. Whether movies present the same problem I don't know, but have you checked that?