Embedding WindowsMediaPlayer9 ??

W

Whitecrest

Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how I can embed the windows media 9
player in my page so users don't have to download it to see my videos?

Your viewers will ALWAYS have to download the player if they do not have
it (most windows machines have it.) But I dont think that is what you
are asking.

Here is the code to embed the video on a web page.

http://www.webreference.com/js/column51/install.html

Make the appropriate changes to it fits your needs.
 
R

Richard

Christopher! said:
Can anyone point me to a tutorial on how I can embed the windows media 9
player in my page so users don't have to download it to see my videos?

Ask the host if they allow running an application in the background.
Doing so may cause an overload on the equipment and drive up your bandwidth.
Then how are 100 simultaneous viewers gonna see the flick?
For each viewer, you'd have to have a sepertate instance running.
 
D

DU

Whitecrest said:
Your viewers will ALWAYS have to download the player if they do not have
it (most windows machines have it.) But I dont think that is what you
are asking.

Here is the code to embed the video on a web page.

http://www.webreference.com/js/column51/install.html
Column 51 was
Created: October 25, 1999
Revised: November 23, 1999
Make the appropriate changes to it fits your needs.

WMP9 classid's is:
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"

The given classid at that column51 is for WMP7 I think.

DU
 
W

Whitecrest

Column 51 was
Created: October 25, 1999
Revised: November 23, 1999
WMP9 classid's is:
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
The given classid at that column51 is for WMP7 I think.

You still want to use the progid of 6.4 or 7.1 If you use 9's progID,
and they have not upgraded nothing will happen. If you use 6.4 or 7.1
and they have upgraded the upgraded version will play.
 
G

George Self

Whitecrest said:
Your viewers will ALWAYS have to download the player if they do not have
it (most windows machines have it.) But I dont think that is what you
are asking.

Remember, though, that non-windows machines (Linux, for example) will not
have the Windows Media Player. If you chose to embed your media, consider
also creating a link so those of us using Linux can click-to-view if we
want.
Here is the code to embed the video on a web page.

http://www.webreference.com/js/column51/install.html

Make the appropriate changes to it fits your needs.

--George
 
T

Toby A Inkster

Whitecrest said:
They had better checkout their info. They say: Streaming live content
like net-radio requires a "streaming media server", This is completely
untrue. If the user can download it faster than they need to view it.
Then it is streaming. Everything is client side.

Well, that all depends on your definition of "streaming". A lot of people
would use a definition where there is *never* any file downloaded to the
user's computer except perhaps a codec or two, and maybe the media player
itself, but not the media file.

The media file is stored only on the server. The server sends parts of the
file, piece-by-piece to the client. The client plays and then discards
each piece.[1]

As the file is never saved to the user's disk it can prevent some less
engineering users from "pirating" the file. Of course without proper
encryption (which some streaming media servers do support, but seems to be
rarely used) this is hardly foolproof.

It is also useful if the media file is long (infinite? Think live
broadcasts!) so couldn't possibly be downloaded the user's hard-drive.

[1]This is how streaming works if you buy the proper media suites from
Real Networks, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
 
T

Toby A Inkster

George said:
Remember, though, that non-windows machines (Linux, for example) will not
have the Windows Media Player. If you chose to embed your media, consider
also creating a link so those of us using Linux can click-to-view if we
want.

Very true.

For some reason or reasons unknown, sometimes Mozilla seems to let me view
an embedded media file using an embedded Xine control. Other times it
doesn't. I've not really looked into it much, as I don't often find the
need to do such things, but it is curious.

So yes, please also provide a plain link to the media file. It has other
uses too:

- a user is on a connection too slow to stream, but is willing
to download and watch later; or

- a user is on a PalmPilot or similar handheld device with crappy
sound and low colour and wants to bookmark the URL of the movie
so that he can sync it with his Apple Powerbook and watch the
movie in widescreen with surround sound.
 
W

Whitecrest

Well, that all depends on your definition of "streaming"....

Of course you realize this has the potential or an argument about
semantics and definitions. So lets not go there.
 
S

Spartanicus

Toby said:
Well, that all depends on your definition of "streaming". A lot of people
would use a definition where there is *never* any file downloaded to the
user's computer except perhaps a codec or two, and maybe the media player
itself, but not the media file.

The media file is stored only on the server.

Except when streaming live/real-time data like net-radio, then there is
no media data stored on the server either.
The server sends parts of the
file, piece-by-piece to the client. The client plays and then discards
each piece.[1]

As the file is never saved to the user's disk it can prevent some less
engineering users from "pirating" the file. Of course without proper
encryption (which some streaming media servers do support, but seems to be
rarely used) this is hardly foolproof.

Streaming media servers usually employ proprietary/closed transport
protocols, this alone makes it difficult for the average user to save
the media locally (there are a few programs available to do that).
It is also useful if the media file is long (infinite? Think live
broadcasts!) so couldn't possibly be downloaded the user's hard-drive.

[1]This is how streaming works if you buy the proper media suites from
Real Networks, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

This is also how it works if you use simple redirector files instead of
buying media suites (Streaming server software).
 

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