How does one get a popup Video to happen, so when a user clicks a link they get a popup Avi instaed of an image ??????? I searched & searched but to no evail Thanks in advance Mick

Surely you just create the standard A HREF link, and it will automatically load up in their default player? Two caveats to consider though - firstly not everyone has their player accessible to the net as vid files can contain malicious script; and secondly, AVI files are generally large so take a while to load. Perhaps better to link a zip file containing the movie for download?

Cheers for that, so I take it you cant have it in a popup window as you do with an image, it has to launch there media player ?

Just to clear it up a bit I am doing a cert3 in I.T. We have to create some diagnostic web pages, ie: Derfrag,ScanDisk & other utils & how to use them, at the end of each instruction I would like to have a avi/mpeg of the said utility playing, but as you said it takes a while to load So i thought maybe i can have an image of said utility & when clicked on it launches the vid in its own popup window, not necessarly their media player But then if I cant then I cant :(

Just create your popup window and in the page that the popup window loads, use the embed tag. Example: <embed src="amovie.avi" width = 35 hieght = 35 autostart=true align=left> Internet browsers cannot play avi files by themselves. They must have the correct plug-in installed or they must use a media player already installed on the system. Give the above example a try though, and if it gives you an error it will also probably give you insight into what you will need to install to make it work. Good luck.

Your other alternative is to create a streaming video and embed that. These usually load pretty quick, especially if it's on an intranet. You can do this with RealPlayer (yuck), Windows Media Encoder (free), and I think QuickTime Pro. ($)