How to Add a Poster Frame to a QuickTime Movie

Problem: Poster frames make displaying multimedia content on your website user-friendly. Instead of presenting visitors with a page that requires an immediate download of a large movie file, poster frames give visitors the ability to see what the movie is about and choose whether they want to download it. Solution: Create a single-frame poster movie and specify it in the src attribute of the QuickTime code on your webpage: <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"        codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"        width="640" height="496">   <param name="src" value="poster.mov">   <param name="href" value="movie.mov">   <param name="target" value="myself">   <param name="autoplay" value="true">   <param name="controller" value="false">   <param name="pluginspage"        value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html"> <param name="type" value="video/quicktime"> <embed src="poster.mov" href="movie.mov" target="myself"        width="640" height="496" autoplay="true"        controller="false" border="0"        pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html"        type="video/quicktime"></embed> </object> To ensure cross-browser capability, you should use both the object and embed tags to display a QuickTime movie on a webpage. Ordinarily, the value of the src attribute would be the path and file name of the full movie. When you want to display a poster frame first, you specify its path and file name with the src attribute and use two other attributes -href and target-to load the full movie when the user clicks the poster frame image (as shown in Figure 1).