Adding video and player using FP2003 to webpage

[Guest]

I have FP03 and am trying to setup a webpage to play a video. I can get
it to play the video ok but there is no player so the user cannot stop
and start the video or control audio, etc.

I have googled this and find mostly people selling software and lost of
articles telling me they are going to tell me how but after reading them
there is no solution there.

Can someone steer me to the directions of how to have the webpage play
video using a video player similar to what I see on MSN and other sites
that play video?

Thanks

 

[Mike Mueller]

How are you inserting the video into the page. There is an WMP add-in for FP
which has the options of showing the controls. I do not remember how
standards compliant that method is as I insert players manually now.

 

[Guest]

Hi Mike:

While I was waiting I poked around some more and found a micorsoft site that
allows the use of an add-in for wmp 10. I downloaded it and installed it into
FP03 and it seems to work pretty well, at least with my browser.

How do yo manually install? Do you have an example on a site I can look at?
Thanks

 

[Mike Mueller]

Unfortunately I do not, as my AV presentations are now on secured sites

However, I can provide you with the code.

On the webpage:

<object type="video/x-ms-asx" data="http://www.example.com/playlist.asx"
width="286" height="225" standby="Loading Windows Media Player">
<param name="src" value="http://www.example.com/playlist.asx">
<param name="autostart" value="true" >
<param name="controller" value="true" >
</object>

Object Tag:
type="video/x-ms-asx". This means we are watching a video, and the mime type
of the file is Microsoft ASX. This will tell the browser to load Windows
Media Player
data="http://www.example.com/playlist.asx". This is the full URL of the
playlist file. Relative URLs are not allowed.
width="286" height="225": Dimensions for the object.
standby="Loading Windows Media Player": What is displayed while WMP is
being loaded
<param name="src" value="http://www.example.com/playlist.asx"> Seems
redundant, but necessary due to WMP loading via activeX or plug-in.
<param name="autostart" value="true" >: The media will play automatically
<param name="controller" value="true" >: The media player will show

The playlist is an XML based file which will contain the information for the
media being played. In the following example song1.mp3 will play first, and
then video2 will be displayed.
<asx version="3.0">
<entry>
<ref href="http://www.example.com/song1.mp3" />
<ref href=http://www.example.com/video2.wmv />
</entry>
</asx>