QuickTime movie and Sprite events

[Kinky]

If I have a quicktime movie (or in any other format), can I append a sprite event to it, so that I can can track the number of downloads of that movie?

If the movie was placed on a single HTML page, then I could easily track it that way. But, people will be downloading it, emailing it, and hosting it on their own servers. So I'd like to be able to track each time the movie is opened, irrespective of where it's hosted.

Anyone know if it can be done? And how easily, and with what?

My agency says it can't be done - but I know it can be, as I've done it before.

Many thanks in advance,

K

[Plotloss]

In WMV format you can launch a page when its played but users can supress this.

I cant see a way, off the top of my head, to see how you could achieve this without resorting to full fat DRM.

[Kinky]

Thanks Matt.

Going the whole hog with DRM is a bit OTT for this - but is a plan Z should all else fail.

I have done this before - but the agency who did that no longer exist (unfortunately), and I was able to track each and every play of the clip, by the total count of a pixel opening on my website (of which I had over 5 million for reference).

The agency specifically used Quicktime as they were able to embed the code to open this pixel on each play.

But dammed if I can find anything anywhere.

Alledgedly LiveStage Pro allows you the ability to do this - but the demo download will not function (it seems the company is not in the best of health).

Bugger.

K