Indexhibit Support

hi,

searched the forum and tried to follow the tips to achieve these things, but i am new to all of this and am still desperately trying to figure out how to:
1.add and play my somewhat large (25MBish) quicktime projects
2.somehow either play, stream, or make my large mp3 files available for download.

thank you in advance for your help!

keithsurfer,

The easiest way to do this (for large files), without having to change any config files on your server, is to ftp the files to your server in a subfolder of some sort (eg: www.example.com/media/)

Then, in your exhibit, just can put a link to the file in the "text" content. something like the following would do:

< a href="www.example.com/media/song.mp3">
my song
< /a>



If you want to embed it in your page, this is a bit more tricky, put a starting place would be how to embed something with quicktime (mov, mp3...) :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.htm

I think it is also possible to upload those files trough indexhibit filemanager (available when you edit your exhibit - it's one of the icons over the textarea)

This method though is limited by your php configuration (search the web for how to set this, there's plenty of not so hard tutorials out there; you'll feel good when you make it happen!).

If you can change it on your server (or ask your service to do it for you) you should be able to upload the files and then insert a link like I mentionned before (you just do not need to figure out the path by yourself and can use the web interface instead of an ftp program + indexhibit)

Hope this help. If you need more help, try to explain in more detail what you already tried and what you couldn't figure out.

*EDIT

You should go only with the FTP method but, for the record, I've done it with +50megs files on a dedicated server space. The thing is if the operation times out on the server end, your file upload will not work... so shared servers (most affordable web-hosting plans these days) are almost out of the question for big files, it is completly unreliable, like Vaska mentioned. (see bellow)

You likely can not upload files that big...it's a server limitation. Even servers that claim you can often don't work very reliably.

FTP'ing these files and manually inserting the code will likely be the way to go...

thank you both for your help!
i tried antoinelafontaine's method but no luck...
however i'm probably doing something, somewhere wrong
(this world is all new to me).
so i ftp'ed my .mov and .mp3 files to a folder i created called media to:
/domains/keithkandell.com/html/media
then i entered this code:
< a href="www.keithkandell.com/html/media/AnotherWorld.mp3">
Another World
< /a>

but it doesn't create a link. it just displays the code. see:
http://keithkandell.com/dj/mixes/

what am i doing wrong?
my webhost is mediatemple.net and i have their grid service lite hosting package, so i don't think that should affect my large files, right?

thank you both for your help!
i tried antoinelafontaine's method but no luck...
however i'm probably doing something, somewhere wrong
(this world is all new to me).
so i ftp'ed my .mov and .mp3 files to a folder i created called media to:
/domains/keithkandell.com/html/media
then i entered this code:
< a href="www.keithkandell.com/html/media/AnotherWorld.mp3">
Another World
< /a>

but it doesn't create a link. it just displays the code. see:
http://keithkandell.com/dj/mixes/

what am i doing wrong?
my webhost is mediatemple.net and i have their grid service lite hosting package, so i don't think that should affect my large files, right?

Create a tiny mp3 file and load it via the Files Manager. Then, insert it into your page (using the Files Manager) and look at the code that it creates. Then, replace the path with the path to your mp3 file.

Next version will have a little Flash player for mp3 files...will be easier.

oops!
sorry for the double post!

also, regarding the .mov files:

quicktime has a feature that if you open your .mov file in quicktime you can "export to web" which makes a reference .mov file, a .jpg posterframe image file, and a .m4v file as well as html code to enter all of that into a page.

i ftp'ed those files and then added that code, but nothing is displayed:

http://keithkandell.com/work/lord--taylor/

thanks!

You said you uploaded them to a folder called 'media'? The url you have to the media files there doesn't exist...the files are in another location...

i moved the files into the files folder...
because your tip with using the files manager code has worked beautifully!
i'm so happy to now have audio and video on my site!
indexhibit (and it's community) are the greatest!
thank you so much for all your help vaska!

I'm glad it worked all right in the end. (Vaska is better at simple explanations than I am I'm affraid...)

Just a thing I noticed in your previous post that might have been the reason of your path not working...

On your server, via ftp, you put your files here:

/domains/keithkandell.com/html/media

If it works like one of the provider I use, the root starts AFTER the html folder. so your file path would effectively be:

www.keithkandell.com/media/AnotherWorld.mp3

and not

www.keithkandell.com/HTML/media/AnotherWorld.mp3

This might be of help in the future... or just as a reference for other people reading this post.

ah-ha! that makes sense too.
thanks for your help and follow-up!

Hi guys, sorry but i just cant find the file manager. where is that at ? i know the help says next to the Links button above the text window... but i still dont know where this is ?

I wanted to upload quicktimes to my site, just like keithsurfer has done. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks
shrijit

Hello,

I am trying to do the same as Keithsurfer but it does not work. I am a beginner with ftp so I might not put the right link. I have uploaded my video in my file folder under indexhibitv070e in my ftp, and then I tried to copy and paste the link. But nothing shows up, on in the best case what shows up is the quicktime link with a white question mark in the middle.

If anyone could help me I would be very grateful!!

Thanks a lot in a advance.

1. <object classid='clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B' codebase='http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab' width='720' height='480'><param name='src' value='http://www.sandravolny.info/indexhibitv070e/files1/mob.mov' /><param name='controller' value='true' /><param name='autoplay' value='true' /><!--[if !IE]>--><object type='video/quicktime' data='http://www.sandravolny.info/indexhibitv070e/files1/mob.mov' width='720' height='480'><param name='autoplay' value='true' /><param name='controller' value='true' /></object><!--<![endif]--></object>

indexhibitv070e???

the address of the movie is this one: http://www.sandravolny.info/files/1mob.mov

YOUHOU!! Thanks!

hi, i have followed the above advice.
i made a quick time movie and then exported it for web from the quick time menu. it made a fantastic very small file which i uploaded to indexhibit via file manager.
i then made a link but it goes to a page with a white '?'
heres my link:

my page on my site is:Webpage

1. what am i doing wrong?
2. thank you in advance.<blockquote></blockquote>