<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently, with QT files at least, I hear you can install a
> hyperlink ping to occur at some reference point. So, every time
> someone watches the end of the commercial, say, you could have the QT
> file ping a server.
Barring tools like LiveStage Pro which I'm not all that familiar with
yet...
QT allows you to load an URL at a given point, but this URL is made
visible to the viewer (it either opens in their browser or in a Quicktime
window) making it not-so-usable for this kind of stuff.
One thing I did make a proof of concept of was the use of an image.
Quicktime loads the image at a certain point, but the image is really a
web script returning an image. This makes logging of viewers possible.
However, you cannot do this easily (that is without LiveStage Pro) with
self-contained files. If you just save as self-contained in QT Pro you end
up with the image being saved in the .mov itself (and thus it won't hit
your server). IIRC you also have to use SMIL - if you don't QT will load
the image at the begining of playback no matter when the image is to be
shown.
Even with SMIL the image will be loaded ahead of time so you can't use
this technique to get very detailed stats (you can maybe determine viewers
in 5 second blocks).
- Andreas
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