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Lars · Guest

Can anyone help me out with this? I want to embed Windows Media player in
the webpage top play a mms:// stream on another server.

David Chen [MS] · Guest

Lars:
There are some examples and topics in Windows Player SDK about your
question. The Windows Player SDK can be downloaded from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp. Here is
an example for you to look at. Hope this helps.

Simple Example of Scripting in a Web Page
You can easily embed the Windows Media Player control in an HTML file using
any scripting language your browser recognizes. The following simple
example uses Microsoft JScript to create a page that will play a file when
you click on a button, and stop playing the file when you click on another
button.

You can embed the Windows Media Player ActiveX control in a Web page using
the following four steps:

Create the Web page.
Add the OBJECT tag.
Add a user interface. In this case, two buttons.
Add a few lines of code to respond when the user clicks on one of the
buttons you have created.
Creating the Web Page
The first step is to create a valid HTML Web page. The following code is
the minimum needed to create a blank but valid HTML page:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Adding the OBJECT Tag
Once you have created a Web page, you need to add an OBJECT tag. This
identifies the ActiveX control to the browser and sets up any initial
definitions. You must place the OBJECT tag in the BODY of the code. If you
place it in the BODY, the default user interface of Windows Media Player
will be visible. If you want to create your own user interface, set the
height and width attributes to 0 (zero). You can also set the Player.uiMode
property to "invisible" when you want to hide the control, but still
reserve space for it on the page. The following code is recommended when
you provide a custom user interface:

<OBJECT ID="Player" height="0" width="0"
CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
</OBJECT>

The following OBJECT tag attributes are required:

ID

The name that will be used by other parts of the code to identify and use
the ActiveX control. You can choose any name you want, as long as it is a
name that is not already used by HTML, HTML extensions, or the scripting
language you are using. In this example, the name Player is used, but you
could also call it MyPlayer or something else. Just pick a name that is
unique to that Web page.

CLASSID

A very large hexidecimal number that is unique to the control. Only one
control has this number and it is the Windows Media Player ActiveX control.
To prevent typograhical errors, you can copy and paste this number from the
documentation. Versions of the Windows Media Player control prior to
version 7.0 had a different CLASSID.

Adding a User Interface
HTML allows a vast wealth of user interface elements, allowing the user to
interact with your Web page by clicking, pressing keys, and other user
actions. Adding a few INPUT buttons is the easiest way to provide a quick
user interface. The following code creates two buttons that can respond to
the user. Clicking one button starts the media stream playing and the other
button stops it:

<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="BtnPlay" VALUE="Play" OnClick="StartMeUp()">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="BtnStop" VALUE="Stop" OnClick="ShutMeDown()">

The name of the button is used to identify the button to your code; the
value is the label that will appear on the button, and the OnClick
attribute identifies which part of your scripting code will be called when
the button is clicked.

Adding Scripting Code
Scripting code adds interactivity to your page. Scripting code can respond
to events, call methods, and change run-time properties. Extended scripts
are enclosed in a SCRIPT tag set. The SCRIPT tag tells the browser where
your scripting code is and identifies the scripting language. If you do not
identify a language, the default language will be Microsoft JScript.

It is good authoring practice to enclose your script in HTML comment tags
so browsers that do not support scripting do not render your code as text.
Put the SCRIPT tag anywhere within the BODY of your HTML file and embed the
comment-surrounded code within the opening and closing SCRIPT tags.

The following Microsoft JScript code example calls the Windows Media Player
control and performs an appropriate action in response to the corresponding
button click.

<SCRIPT>

</SCRIPT>

The example function, StartMeUp, is called when the button marked Play is
clicked, and the ShutMeDown function is called when the Stop button is
clicked.

The code inside StartMeUp uses the URL property to define a path to the
media. The media will start playing immediately.

The ShutMeDown code calls the stop method of the Controls object. Note that
the Controls object is called through the controls property of the Player
object, which has the ID value of "Player".

The following code shows a complete example.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<OBJECT ID="Player" height="0" width="0"
CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
</OBJECT>
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="BtnPlay" VALUE="Play" OnClick="StartMeUp()">
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="BtnStop" VALUE="Stop" OnClick="ShutMeDown()">
<SCRIPT>

</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

David Chen
Digital Media Division
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Lars · Guest

That worked fine, however when i click a link on that page the stream stops
working. Is there a way to have the stream run all the time when the browser
is open?

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