Hello;
Hope someone can help/direct me.

I am revamping an older website with a page that contains movie files that are stored in a MySQL database.

Here is a sample of the current code that points to them and a corresponding image thumbnail:

<table width=600 border=0 cellpadding=1><tr><td valign='top' colspan='5'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='red'><b>Video Vault</b></font></td></tr><tr><td width=50></td> Code:
<td><a href='http://www.mysite.com/movie/movie9.php?id=225'target='movie')><nobr><font face='Arial' size='1'><b>Siemens</b></font></nobr><br><img src='../keyframes/Siemens_Energy.jpg' width='64' height='46'></a>
</td>

There are a couple dozen movies on the webpage.

How can I have these launch when the person clicks on the image so it will launch the movie in their native movie application on their particular machine?

Is there a way to not have to "code in" a player into the website?

I am a novice and I appreciate any help/direction..

Thank you.

Just link to the video/movie file, then it will simply behave however the end user has them setup to do.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...audio-web.html and use javascript to change the source file

Thank you chrishirst;
I read through the video link but none sow a "universal" way across all browsers/movie players..(quicktime, windows medai player). Looking at the code I supplied, can you tell which would be the best code to use?

The files now launch Quicktime player..

Thank you

There isn't one, it depends on whatever the end user has installed.

The files now launch Quicktime player..

On your machine maybe.