Video Player in browser... how do I do?

[ThunderMusic]

Hi,
I want to have a video player in my web app... How can I do that? must it be
an ActiveX? is there any other format I can use? I don't want to use Java if
possible... I heard it's possible tot do with flash. If it's true, is it
pretty easy to do? because I've done some little animations with flash, but
never got very far in it...

Are there any third parties that are worth looking at? my budget is very
very low so I'd like something free or not too costy... using Windows Media
player would be good, but will it work with linux or mac? probably not...

So what would you recommend?

Thanks

ThunderMusic

 

[Mike Lowery]

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/adding_windows_media_to_web_pages__etse.asp.

Browsers rely on external apps to play videos, so yes, it requires ActiveX or
other "plug-in" type technologies (Flash included.)

 

[ThunderMusic]

ok, thanks... Am I right thinking Media Player wont work for Linux and Mac
users?

thanks

ThunderMusic

 

[Mike Lowery]

WMP is available for the Mac, but not Linux. So it might work with a Mac (not
sure) but definitely not Linux (although there are Linux players capable of
playing back WMV files.)

 

[ThunderMusic]

thanks a lot...

WMP is available for the Mac, but not Linux. So it might work with a Mac
(not sure) but definitely not Linux (although there are Linux players
capable of playing back WMV files.)