I am trying to insert a video clip into a page of my website. Actually wanted it to be something that to play you click on the text. It is an exe. file If I can even make a seperate page and link to that. I just need to know how to get the clip into CMS.

Thanks,
Ethan Swiger
Associate Broker
Real Estate One-Petoskey
Office (231)-347-6200
Cell (231)-881-6263
Fax (231)-347-8790
WWW.ESWIGER.COM
e-mail eswiger@racc2000.com or Ethan@eswiger.com

Hi Ethan,

I don't think that you'll be able to link to an .exe file...You cannot upload that file type into the CMS.

What type of video file do you have that is an .exe file? Can you get it into a different format?

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You want to refrain from .exe, and stick to .mpg/.avi/.mov formats for video, since most people either already have the plug in to play them for their browser, or most code will let them download it.

You can even get the movie changed into flash format, and do that as well.

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I downloaded the video and that is the way it saved. I wonder if I can save it a different way? Here is were I currently have a link to the video http://www.eswiger.com/sellers.php it is under "Hear benefits of Visual Tour" When I link to the video The back button takes them back to the visual tour site. Is there a way to download the video in a format that I can place on a page in my site then link to that? I also have a cd of the video, maybe I can save from that to my site?

Okay.. that isn't an exe, that is a flash file. You are linking to the virtual tour website. Instead of doing a back via history, they manually direct it back to them, better to prevent people linking it (like you are doing).

What you can do, with their permission, is make your own site, and embed their flash. Thus putting their flash to show it off, on your own site (your header etc). This way the wouldn't leave your site.

If they give you permission, their flash file is hosted at http colon //visualtour dot com/marketing_materials/visualtour.swf

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Sounds like I'm getting closer to a solution. So once I get their permission I, just use the link to their flash file? I should make a page on my site with that flash player then link to that page of my site, or just insert the link to their flash player were I have the other link already on my site?

By the way thanks for all the help. I tried to check out your site. Message said your server was down? If I type your site in it goes to another realtors site.

That worked great! Just got their permission. How did you find out the host link? Their tech guy didn't know that link, but said it would be ok to use it. Got through to your site, looks nice. Do you have a link exchange set up?

Wow, I just realized that I typed the name as e3, but everything else is ethree.

And Top Producer was having problems today =/

I'm setting up a link exchange in a bit I've had a few others ask actually.

And to get that flash link, I went to view source, searched for .swf (flash file) and got it

If you have access to your own pages, what you will do is create a new page, and just between the body tags, place an embed. It would be better to put unique content describing what the flash file is.

If you have the main link again (instead of the direct link to the flash) I'd love it. This way I could find out the height and the width of the flash file. If you went to that link directly, you would notice the flash is large and pixelated. In the code to embed you set the height and width.

[edit, I guess [html][/html] isn't enabled, to show html code, eh?]

Everything in there is fine, EXCEPT the height and width parameters. Once I find them out (or you plug them in) then it will all be hunky dory. You could even go so far as to take out half of that. All that code basically makes it display, and if they don't have the plugin, tells them to download it. It's nice for the general public.

OR, you could save the flash file, upload it to your site, and link it yourself. This way, if you get indexed, and virtualtour.swf is there, and someone puts in virtual tour into google, that's a chance

*edit* I'm good at doing this sort of thing, because I've had a few developments we work with that had their own virtual tours. So they wanted us to use them, but didn't know how besides us linking to their site. If we did that... people could go behind our backs. So instead, I ripped the flash files off, or got just the URL links, and basically did it on my site. You can't even tell, because I did it well enough. The developers love the idea, because this way the virtual tours they paid money for are getting used, and what's more, by someone competent enough to make use of them!

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I think the link you are after is http://visualtour.com/marketing_mate...esentation.htm

If you have the need to do virtual tours this company is great. $30.00 per month for unlimited tours. Just started using them four months ago.
Sounds like you know your stuff when it comes to this . Let me know when you get your linking set up.

They used % based height and width, to make it appear decent in the screen. They probably optimized the flash for 1024 or 800.

When it comes to coding, I know my stuff Don't have a degree in CompSci for nothing.


That whole realty thing though.. I couldn't List my way out of a wet paper bag.

*Edit*, and a little flash knowledge goes a long way. You import the picture (which is a 360 degrees panorama), set up a viewable space, and set up mouse movement The hard ones, are when people do it like a donut, and work more in 3d. It's generally software based though. You need a special camera to take the donut picture, which usually they sell you to do it also.

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