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Message: [QUOTE="cwdjrxyz, post: 1606204"] The most usual method today uses an ActiveX object with an embed path within it for most browsers other than IE that do not support ActiveX for the WMP without special third party plugins. However embed is invalid code, and never has been part of W3C html. This method works on most browsers, but gives many errors at the W3C validator. Most media such as wmv, wma, rm, swf, etc can now be made to work with only valid code, but you would never know this from looking at the code on sites of some of the largest media companies. However one can write a simple ordinary object for playing wmv that works on most modern browsers and that uses only valid code. See the code for [URL]http://www.cwdjr.info/broadbandMedia/formatsOB/cancanWMV.php[/URL] . You can use the object for the player at any level from html 4.01 through xhtml 1.1. The object points to a simple .wvx redirector file which points to the actual wmv file. If you need help with writing the ..wvx file, I can post an example of one. Note a very high bit rate wmv for broadband is used here, so buffering might be very long on dialup. You use a bit rate for the intended audience, and some sites uses up to 3 bit rate wmvs for dialup, low end broadband, and high end broadband. On a special streaming server you often can encode the various bit rates together and use code to select the correct bit rate for the viewing browser. If you have only an ordinary html server, then you would have to offer a link for each bit rate to be selected by the user. Microsoft has a free Windows Media Encoder should you need to make wmv files at various rates from a mpeg video capture of a video. [/QUOTE]

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