Playing mpeg files in IE

**danasegarane** · Aug 20th, 2006, 02:44 AM

Hi,
How to play a mpeg files by embed tag in html pages.

**mendhak** · Aug 21st, 2006, 10:55 AM

From microsoft:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Document Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
    if ( navigator.appName == "Netscape" )
    {
        //-- This next line ensures that any plug-ins just installed are updated in the browser
        //-- without quitting the browser.
        navigator.plug-ins.refresh();
        // We don't need the APPLET within IE
        // ***Please note that if you do not need to script events, you can safely remove the next two lines
        document.write("\x3C" + "applet MAYSCRIPT Code=NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class")
        document.writeln(" width=5 height=5 name=appObs\x3E \x3C/applet\x3E")
    }
//-->
</script>

<!-- Set ShowControls, ShowDisplay, ShowStatusBar to value 0 to not display the corresponding thing under the video window -->
<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240 classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject">
    <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="Station1.asx">
    <PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">
    <PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="1">
    <PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="1">
    <PARAM NAME="AutoSize" VALUE="1">
    <Embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
        pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx/"
        filename="Station1.asx"
        src="Station1.asx"
        Name=MediaPlayer
        ShowControls=1
        ShowDisplay=1
        ShowStatusBar=1
        width=320
        height=240>
    </embed>
</OBJECT>

</BODY>
</HTML>

**litlewiki** · Aug 22nd, 2006, 12:50 PM

Mendhak ,i have a doubt .

You tube generally provides an embed tag code like

Code:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/<some value>"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/<some value>" 
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" 
height="350"></embed></object>

Now if i just copy and paste the above to an html page ,it works.
So why should we have to code so much to embed a windows media player into a page??

**mendhak** · Aug 24th, 2006, 12:05 PM

Because youtube uses a flash object, not a windows media player object. Its flash object contacts its server and streams the movie and plays it in its own interface.

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