Donald Rumsfeld interviewed by BBC

When I posted the above, I used the link to the BBC *.ram file in the upload box to see if it would make a valid hyperlink and also include the camcorder icon. The icon appears, which is cool, but the link will not work. Anyone know how to sneak in links in a format that would work? That's handy for things like this, and could conceivably spare bandwidth. For example, you know how some people load the same mp3 up into various imc sites, over and over? It would be cool if a "link box" for mp3s and other files was part of the upload template page -- just a thought. Wish I could code it myself!

for some reason the .ram file was an empty file, so i fixed it.

what you want to do is create metafiles in a text editor (notepad, simpletext, etc.). For real, you make the URL of the .rm file (this could be either http://... or rtsp://...) a 1-line text file and save it as a .ram file. For mp3, you make the URL of the .mp3 file (http://...) a 1-line text file and save it as a .m3u file (you can also make a .pls file, which has a slightly more complicated format). There are also metafile formats for windows media and quicktime. The most complex metafile language is SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), but normally you want to link to SMIL with another metafile, so you can force the client to open it with either QuickTime or Real. This is what BBC does by having a .ram metafile point to a .smil metafile.

I'll give that a try next time. :-)