ok, let me show you how to place clickable banner in Windows Media Player
 

http://www.outsited.com/hh/movie.wmd

download the movie ^^^ and play it in WMP, you should see a small banner, you can click it if you really want to - it goes to my adult blogs directory, so no viruses or any other crap


If you want to know how is this done simply rename the file "movie.wmd" to "movie.zip" and unzip it, you should get two files, open the file with the extention ".asx" with Notepad and you'll see where you can replace my urls with your urls

So from there you use Unzip to create a zip archive form the ".asx" file and your video ".wmd", and then rename the ".zip" file to a ".wmd" file.


It works (or at least it should) even with WMP 10 which comes with the scripting turned off by default

Please lmk if you can not see the banner and what Widnows Media Player are you using, thanks


p.s. both the movie and the banner are on one of my virtual hosts so be patient ;)
p.p.s. I shot that video today on my way to the gym with my difital camera, therefore the great quality, removed the sound as well.....

Soon as I click it asks me to download the zip.

ok, you have to download the file and then play it from your HD

Man that is nice. Thanks.

I hit the link and it gave me a download prompt for a zip file too...WMP10 here

Nope, I can download and rename to get it to play but not just play it.

Version 9.00.00.3344 :upsidedow

ok, I'm kinda lost here, the video file has an extension .wmd but when you click the link it gets saved as .zip ???????

I just tried on one of my other PCs and it works there too, do you guys have SP2 installed (coz I don't)??? may be that's what causes this??????

I clicked on the link, it automatically told me to download a zip

I copied the link, and pasted into WMP10 and it did nothing, just sat there trying to connect

I downloaded the link and opened it up and extracted the two file onto my desktop and played the asx, and I saw where the banner was supposed to be but waasn't visible

I renamed zip to wmd and tried to open with no success

I did the above except when I renamed the .zip to .wmd it played with banner in place. SP2 yes.

yup, I click the link above and it prompts me to save movie.zip

and of course I have SP2 installed, don't you HAVE to these days? LOL...it is kind of forced on most of the world at the beginning of the year

make one that links to http://www.porno-shack.com here is the banner i made http://www.porno-shack.com/images/pop.jpg

I have WMP10, I saw the video, but no banner. Of course, I don't run it in full mode, I use a minimalistic skin. :)

wow, that is great

if I remember correctly the banner''s only visible in full mode

http://www.outsited.com/hh/movie2.wmd

your banner has to be up to 32/194 pixels though

check out a bunch of custom skins at www.videolator.com

here is how you make a banner use this script

<ASX Version = "3.0">
<ABSTRACT>VIDEOLATOR.COM</ABSTRACT>
<TITLE>VIDEOLATOR.COM</TITLE>
<SKIN HREF="VIDEOLATOR.wmz" />
<AUTHOR>VIDEOLATOR.COM</AUTHOR>
<PARAM name="Album" value="VIDEOLATOR.COM "/>
<PARAM name="Artist" value="VIDEOLATOR.COM"/>
<PARAM name="Genre" value="VIDEOLATOR.COM"/>
<COPYRIGHT>VIDEOLATOR.COM</COPYRIGHT>
<Logo href = "icon.gif" style = "ICON" />
<Logo href = "mark.jpg" style = "MARK" />
<Base href= "http://videolator.com" />
<MoreInfo href = "http://videolator.com" />
<Entry ClientSkip = "yes">
<Ref href = "http://videolator.com/wmv/videolator1.wmv" />
<Banner href="http://www.videolator.com/vivid.gif">
<MoreInfo href = "http://videolator.com" />
<Abstract>VIDEOLATOR.COM</Abstract>
</Banner>
</Entry>
</ASX>

make your banner 194x34

copy and paste the script to a notepad file and save as .asx make sure to save as with all files selected. I am sure you can see how to edit my code there so you point to your movie and banner ;)

put this in your .htacess to see if it will make it stop asking to download the
zip

AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx
AddType audio/x-ms-wma wma
AddType audio/x-ms-wax wax
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv
AddType video/x-ms-wvx wvx
AddType video/x-ms-wm wm
AddType video/x-ms-wmx wmx
AddType application/x-ms-wmz wmz
AddType application/x-ms-wmd wmd
AddType application/x-ms-wmz .wmz

if not you need to change the MIME TYPE settings on your server.

here is a useful link http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#mime

this just keep getting better

oh, and your banners are slightly better than mine ;)

since the day I spent more than an hour creating a simple button for a toplist, I'd decided that designing is not my thing

check this out

http://www.devilspost.com/player/ifu...NVIDEO.COM.wmd

I made that a few years ago.

hmmmm..............

wow, that is just great, mad skills !!!

bump for the Euroguys, want to know if many people have problem seeing that video - according to MS's site it should work in WMP 7, 9, and XP

The 'problem' is ppl have to DOWNLOAD the video first right?

I can not STREAM it, and have the banner displayed at the same time/.///

I'm only interested in downloadable movies for now so I skipped the streaming part but actually I think you can, simply google wmd or asx and you'll find some info...

Antonio, I get this message when I click the link:

"You are downloading the skin file: movie.wmd from www.outsited.com. The file may contian scripts or try to access information in your library."

Using SP2 and MP10

damn, that's killing me, so many people are getting warnings or are getting zip instead of wmd file, I even added the lines to my htaccess as suggested by devilspost

thanks for the heads up, obviously I'll have to some more reading

justsexxx, here's a link that might help you /not 100% sure/:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/articl...id=8483&page=1

Thanks looking

awesome stuff!

can you get it to do a popup in the .asx?

Wow awesome post! I've got a related question, how would you do an overlay for an embedded video on a php/html page?

Thats what i get using

IE7 - XP-SP2

thats good shit dude! can come in handy! thanks!

Firefox - XP - WMP 10 i think (too lazy to check). Works perfectly. awesome.

heres a way to do it in an embedded movie..

http://tools.webspacemania.com/asx/


( this example wont work in firefox , but the method will )

Apache
Ensure that you have server administration privileges. If you do not have these privileges, ask your server administrator to update these MIME type extensions.
Change directories to <apache_root>/httpd/conf.
Edit the file srm.conf.
Add the following lines to the end of the file, or to where the other AddType video/* entries are found:
AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx
AddType audio/x-ms-wma wma
AddType audio/x-ms-wax wax
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv
AddType video/x-ms-wvx wvx
AddType video/x-ms-wm wm
AddType video/x-ms-wmx wmx
AddType application/x-ms-wmz wmz
AddType application/x-ms-wmd wmd

If you add these to the end of the file, make sure that the file ends with a blank line.

Save changes and quit the editor.
Restart the Web server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../html/mime.asp

heh man, I read your post last night but I need this for p2p so this wont do it for me, but I'm sure it'll help a lot of people ;)