June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
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Use Media in Your Listings
Entertain bidders with video and animation in your listings or drive them away with background music and sound effects.
Your listings don’t have to be static brochure-like pages; they can be interactive multimedia extravaganzas! Okay, I hear your groans. But there is still a place for media on eBay if you are subtle about it.
Video Killed the Radio Star
Video clips, or “movies,” as some people like to call them, are a great way to show how your product works when a static photo just won’t cut it.
There are several ways to include video clips in your listings, each with it’s own intended purpose. Before you can put video in your listings, you’ll need to upload your clip to a web server [Hack #76] and reference it with a URL like this:
http://www.your.server/videos/penguin.mpg
where http://www.your.server is the URL of
the server, /videos is the folder
name, and penguin.mpg is the
filename of the clip.
Tip
Most modern computers can play MPEG (.mpg) files and Apple Quicktime (.mov) files. AVI (.avi) files also work, but aren’t recommended, because they can’t be played until they’ve finished downloading. And Windows Media (.wmv and .asf) files, while popular on Windows PCs, won’t work on many Macs or Unix systems without extra software.
The first method involves the <embed> tag, like this:
<embed src="http://www.ebayhacks.com/videos/penguin.mpg" autostart=false
loop=true type="video/x-ms-asf-plugin" width=368 height=333></embed>which places a video box right in your ...
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