Help! Redirecting After Loading .mov

You know I believe there is some serious lag going on. I just got my post erased for the THIRD time. Gah.

 

Anyway, I seriously tried to search (and destroy) this problem and mine but I just can't find the specific solution. Well, I thought I had a good lead on some other site, but then turns out you had to PAY TO SEE THE ANSWER. Those bastards. Hip hip for Xisto! This place is turning out more useful than I thought...

 

So here's what I have and here's what I want to do:

 

.mov file that I want to act as a Flash intro. (Yes yes I know Flash would be much better and if you give me a few hundred bucks, I'll go get it.) I want the user to see the movie then for the browser to redirect to the content pages inside. After the movie's finished. Just redirect.

 

So far, the only help I've found is for timed redirects (below, for anyone who wants it):

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=put your own site link here">

(where 5 refers to the number of seconds before the redirect...)

 

And there's lots of help for people with Flash but that doesn't help me. So is there anyone who can? Thaaaaanks!!

Ah okay no one here an expert on Quicktime, eh? Guess it's old stuff, but some of us still have to work with rocks here because we're still in the Stone Age. It's all good though--a good test in versatility and creativity.

 

Well, I went another way since I couldn't figure out how to redirect from a .mov. Guess it's not possible.

 

Here's another question that no one will no the answer to:

 

Is it possible to have a screen/text come up on the Quicktime screen as the movie's loading, that simply says "Your movie is loading..." or something like that? Something to put in the <embed src...> tag? I went to Apple's section on encoding QT movies but they didn't mention anything like that. And they pretty much listed ALL the possible properties and values that QT has...

 

But still, thought I'd take a shot in the dark, and see if there were any suggestions. Because it sucks to just stare at a black screen while it's loading for 3 minutes...

Ah okay no one here an expert on Quicktime, eh? Guess it's old stuff, but some of us still have to work with rocks here because we're still in the Stone Age. It's all good though--a good test in versatility and creativity.

QuickTime isn't old, it's just not for the same purpose as Flash. I would just use the redirect you showed above. Thats what I use for my redirects on my slide show and it works fine.

 

Well, I went another way since I couldn't figure out how to redirect from a .mov. Guess it's not possible.

 

Here's another question that no one will no the answer to:

 

Is it possible to have a screen/text come up on the Quicktime screen as the movie's loading, that simply says "Your movie is loading..." or something like that? Something to put in the <embed src...> tag? I went to Apple's section on encoding QT movies but they didn't mention anything like that. And they pretty much listed ALL the possible properties and values that QT has...

 

But still, thought I'd take a shot in the dark, and see if there were any suggestions. Because it sucks to just stare at a black screen while it's loading for 3 minutes...

I don't think there is a way. If I were you I would just forget the intro even if you could do Flash.