Embed Windows Media Player

I need step by step instrustions on how to embed Windows Media player into my web site

What version of GL are you running?
If it's a newer version you should have a Windows Media Object in the Object Palette that you can drag and drop onto your page, then link to the .wmv file as though it were a regular image in the inspector.
Or was there something special you wanted to do?

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Windows Media Player size

Hi, I am new to Labview software
and I am currently using it for my project, and I try to embed Windows Media Player on it. However, the size always changes depend on the video size that it plays. My question is: How can I size the WMP, so that eventhough I play the 800x600 pixels it will just stay in in original size?
Thanks
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Just create a property node, and set it to all write, put in values and your control will be limited to what size you have put in.
LabVIEW 8.2,8.6,2009...still learning
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How to prevent Windows Media Player plug-in from overriding sizing in html embed code?

My html code for embedding Windows Media Player into a frame recently developed problems in Firefox but not IE 8. The player displays properly at first, but then repositions and resizes. It seems my width setting is honored, but not my height setting. Also, autoplay="false' (or "0") additionally is not honored- the video starts playing after the repositioning and resizing. I have tried different embed code with the same result. I have the correct Windows Media Player Firefox Plug-in and it is up to date. I tried updating to Firefox version 9.0.1, but the problem persists. I've come across web postings positing the plug-in settings are overriding embed code. Any workarounds appreciated. Thank you.

A good place to ask advice about web development is at the MozillaZine "Web Development/Standards Evangelism" forum.
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Spry menu bar hidden behind embedded windows media player in IE but Not Firefox

Hi ppl.. My spry menu bar submenus are hidden below my embedded windows media player when I go over the menu. Is there anything I can do to solve this. This doesn't happen in Firefox.(The submenu appear on top of the embedded player) Pls help.. Thank you!
Here's my spry menu bar css code:
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    cursor: default;
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    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
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    width: 9em;
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Here's my embedded windows media player code.
<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="425" HEIGHT="344" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
          <PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="aqeedah1v7.wmv">
          <PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
          <PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
          <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
          <PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
          <EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="aqeedah1v7.wmv" NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="425" HEIGHT="344" ShowControls="1" ShowStatusBar="1" ShowDisplay="0" autostart="1"> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>

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<param name="WindowlessVideo" value="-1">

Web page music loads in IE but not Firefox. Have downloaded Windows Media Player Firefox plug in but still nothing. Any other suggestions?

Can't get any sound when I open one webpage in Firefox but sound works in Internet Explorer. sound files are .wmv and mp3 format.
I have Windows Media Player Firefox Plug in installed and set to always activiate. Also have Quicktime & Shockwave activated. Any suggestions. Operating system is Windows 7. Thanks

There are a couple issues here that might be the culprit. One is that the player is hidden using a variety of techniques and Firefox often suppresses hidden content because it can be annoying not to be able to control your experience with media. Another possible issue is that the embed tag doesn't specify a content type. Firefox appears to be guessing anyway, and in my case asking whether to activate the QuickTime plugin, but then nothing plays.
To test what would happen if both of those were addressed, you can run this script using Firefox's Web Console. It grabs the address of the media and creates a new embed that is visible and specifies the content type. Here's how to use it:
Select the following long line of code and copy it:
function reEmbedMpeg(em){var el=document.createElement("embed"); el.setAttribute("type","audio/mpeg"); el.setAttribute("src",em.src); el.setAttribute("style","height:20px;width:200px;position:fixed;right:0;top:0"); document.body.appendChild(el);} reEmbedMpeg(document.querySelector("embed"));
When viewing the problem page, press Ctrl+Shift+k to open the Web Console in the lower part of the tab.
Paste the code next to the caret (>>) on the bottom line and press Enter to run it. A player should appear in the upper left corner, the progress bar should show downloading and then the content should play.
Obviously it's not practical to hack every web page you find, but if this is your site or you would be interesting in contacting the owner, hopefully this post will help in getting this working in Firefox.

Encoding iMovie files for Windows Media Player

iMovie 11 / 9.0
Mac OS 10.6.8
I edit audio/video in iMovie (currently the only program I have) and need to output for streaming on the internet. Most of our subscribers are using older versions of Windows Media Player and as I understand won't be able to play MP4. I couldn't play the MP4 using Windows Media Player 9.0, "invalid format" error.
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The easiest way is to upload video to YouTube and embed videos on your site from there. This way you don't have to worry about which version of Windows, which version of Internet Exlorere, etc.
Another way, ask your users to install QuickTime For Windows. Then export normally,
Another way, get one of the paid versions of Flip4Mac, and you can convert files to wmv using QuickTime Pro or MPEG Streamclip or Compressor.

Windows Media Player not working in Firefox 7

This pertains to a beta Internet radio page at http://www.radiofreeneptune.com/ with Windows Media Player embedded in the page.
Prior to Forefox 7, browsing the page with Firefox had the correct media player interface appear (black, with blue buttons) as soon as the page loaded. Clicking on Play caused the music to play.
Having updated to Firefox 7, Firefox stops working for about a minute when the page is first accessed (it appears to be buffering a lot of audio). A crude Media Player interface finally appears. Audio starts playing immediately, even though the embedded control has it AutoStart set to false.
FireFox has the Microsoft Windows Media Player for Firefox 1.0.0.8 installed.
Any idea what might be causing this?
Thanks.
Jack

Try to remove the old (Npdsplay dll in the plugins list) WMP plugin in case that is used.
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Embedded Windows Media PLayer With Non-Standard File Extension

I have embedded a windows media player in a asp.net web page, using the usual
<object> and <embed> tags. The video is served by an ashx (http handler). When I try to play the video, I usually (but not always) get an error message telling me that the file extension (ashx) does not match the file format.
This happens in IE (8, 9, 10, 11) and also in Firefox (latest) with the WMP plugin.
I know that the tags (with classid, etc) are correct because the media player displays and allows me to click the 'play' button.
The ashx returns the correct mime type (video/x-ms-wmv) and a valid file name (somevideo.wmv) in the response headers. I have tried content-disposition attachment and inline.
I have tried urls using 'http://', 'https://', and '//' (which I prefer)
If I put the url (including the .ashx) of the video file in the browser address bar directly, the video downloads and plays in the standalone media player.
If I modify the object tag to use a direct path to the video file (/somewhere/somevideo.wmv), it works - but I can't use this as a solution.
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Tools>Internet Options>Security tab, click "Reset all zones to default"
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How do I insert a windows media player video on my webpage?

Hi
I want to insert a video in windows media player on my webpage. (actually I want to insert 3 on the 1 page, but to start with, I'll be happy with 1!)
Dreamweaver says that it doesnt recognise the file type, and the dreamweaver help is pretty bad on this topic.
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<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
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<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="false">
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I need to open a video and some music in windows media player... but I don't know how....
Can anybody help???

I hav implemented windows media player using JSP....i am sending code
However for java program i do not know
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Embed a media player in netbeans IDE

Hi guys!
I'm pretty new to development in Java, right now I'm using netbeans as the IDE to development a P2P file sharing program for my school project. One of the module is to embed a media player that can playback the media files shared by the program. My group choosed to use VLC. The targeted machine to run is on a Windows XP. If the program can compile and run on Linux, that would be a plus.
Now, having searched the web on how to embed a player, I am utterly confused and lost.. Can anyone suggest some tutorials on how to embed a media player, or even an alternate player that's easily implementable in netbeans?
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When you click on the play video buttons, the rest of the page turns cloudy and the media player pops out.
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Cannot view or play audio or video coded for windows media player, and do not see javascript

I designed a website that uses a little bit of JavaScript. It displays fine in IE (9), but not in Firefox. Does anyone know why, and what the fix is?
Also, and more importantly, I coded audio and video files with Windows media player's class id. They will not show or (obviously) play in Firefox. I downloaded and installed the plug in for Firefox, but no change. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have run across this problem, and I'm surprised that Mozilla hasn't built a fix in the 4.0 version. So, any ideas out there?
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Firefox won't play the media file if there is a classid specified in the object tag. You either need to use conditional code to hide an object without classid for Firefoz from IE or use an embed for Firefox.
<pre><nowiki><object id="(ID)" type="application/x-oleobject" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="(NAME)" value="(VALUE)> // enter parameters for IE here

<object data="(SOURCE)" type="application/x-mplayer2" height="xxx" width="xxx">
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Firefox or Windows Media Player DRM Code.

Merhabalar.
Daha önce çalıştırabildiğim kod şuan çalışmıyor
<embed width="0" height="0" type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/" src="CizgiFilmEddy2.avi" ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=1 AUTOSTART="true" loop="false" autoreplay="false">
bu kodum şuan ki firefox sürümünde çalışmıyor.
araştırmama göre loop u playcount="99" şeklinde yapmam gerekiyormuş bunuda yaptım fakat değişen birşey olmadı.
Bana bu kodun tamamını düzgün şekilde çalıştırabileceğim hale getirecek biri yok mu ?

Do you have the Microsoft Windows Media Player plugin installed and enabled? Because of your question, I noticed that mine is <s>missing</s> <u>disabled</u>.
[[Play Windows Media files in Firefox with the Windows Media plugin]]

Spry Menu Bar hides behind embedded windows media player

Hi guys. My Spry Menu Bar hides behind my embedded windows media player when I go over the menu with my mouse. Below is the code I used to embed my player. How can I make it transparent? Thank you!

To the Params in your object tag, add this:
To the attributes in your embed tag, add this:
wmode="opaque"
Note that z-index is totally irrelevant to Flash. also note that the Adobe Flash Player is wildly inconsistent from browser to
browser and from OS to OS, which is one of the more valid reasons for Apple abandoning the technology's support on its touch
devices.
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BIG QUESTION/ QuickTime or WIndows Media Player

Tomorrow morning i need to make a recommendation as to what product to go with for handling all web based video content. Stuff like streaming educational videos to live press feeds. Basically It's a no brainer for me, I say quicktime, but this would mean a complete overhaul off their network, which is fairly new. So the question is, what would be the definitive reason to go with Quicktime and what does it offer the WMP doesn't.
This will have an effect on a large amount of people that use windows based PC's. So Quicktime will be a hard sell, but I believe its the way our industry is going and has gone.
Any advise at all would be greatly appreciated. I have studied all I can and just need to hear from people who actually use these products.
Thank you..
G4 Dual 1.25 2 GB RAM, Mac Pro Dual 3.66 5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

QuickTime is really a no-brainer.
Start on the content creation side: EVERY professional media production tool I can think of (well, except for those intended to author Flash...) supports QuickTime natively, most actually use the QuickTime frameworks internally. In my own shop, we use mostly Avid Xpress Pro systems, and every one of them can generate a beautiful QuickTime movie with very little trouble, but about half of the systems will obstinately refuse to export a watchable Windows Media file.
For the content itself, QuickTime provides a scalable multimedia architecture that can easily integrate into just about anything you want. QuickTime Streaming Server and QuickTime Broadcaster are perfectly capable streaming products, and if you don't want to invest in a MacOS server, you can run the Darwin Streaming Server instead; I believe we're running it on a Solaris-based machine here. Best of all, the streaming tools are free.
Are you into custom presentation and Web delivery? QuickTime is the only architecture I can think of that allows you to embed a custom player *into the movie itself*. Do you have special features you wish to include? Once I visited a web page where they used a JavaScript player, an ActiveX control, Windows Media Player, and a ton of JavaScript to provide multi-lingual subtitles for a news videotape. Had they chosen to use QuickTime instead, the text tracks and alternate audio tracks could have been embedded into the movie and some very simple JavaScript controls could have been used to control the QuickTime plug-in. Quite simply, if your needs extend *at all* beyond the most basic problems of presenting audio and video files, QuickTime has the technical capabilities that *no other multimedia platform* can provide. Yes, you can stream or serve any kind of video file. But if you want to go beyond that, you need QuickTime.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that QuickTime, unlike Windows Media, is truly a multiple-platform solution. It stops short of being totally platform-independent, but as a cross-platform architecture it again far surpasses Windows Media, in that the entire QuickTime architecture is available in the freely downloadable QuickTime Player for Windows. By comparison, the MacOS version of Windows Media Player is buggy, incomplete, slow, and was abandoned by Microsoft about four years ago. One may argue that QuickTime is not installed by default on Windows machines (so what? Windows Media Player is not installed by default on Apples, either!), but the market strength of Apple's iPod product line has largely taken care of that problem. Apple offers a generous distribution license for QuickTime, and at least when you install QuickTime on a Windows machine you get full QuickTime functionality.
In my opinion, the decision is still a no-brainer. QuickTime is the obvious choice for multimedia delivery.
Caveat: Do you expect any other opinion on Apple's QuickTime discussion board? Still, I think the case is pretty clear.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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