Windows Media Player object in both Firefox and Internet Explorer
We can create a media player which work well both in IE and netsacpe. It requires a windows media player plugin for firefox. You can install the plugin from Windows Media Plugin for Firefox.
This player can be used for playing audio and / or video.
For IE the object is
<object id=”contentPlayer” classid=”CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6″ width=”320″
height=”240″>
<param name=”URL” value=”‘+url+’” />
<param name=”uiMode” value=”none”>
Note: IE required the object ID. And url is a javascript variable for the location of the video /
audio file
And for Netscape the object is
<object id=”contentPlayer” type=”application/x-ms-wmp” data=”‘+url+’” width=”320″ height=”240″>
<param name=”URL” value=”‘+url+’” />
<param name=”uiMode” value=”none”>
Note: Netscape requires object type as application/x-ms-wmp this will be available from the
plugin mentioned earlier.
We can use additional parameter like
<param name=”autostart” value=”false”> to control the automatic playing of the audio/video.
Control can be create for various player events like play, pause, stop etc as follows
var wmp = document.getElementById(’contentPlayer’);
wmp.controls.play();
wmp.controls.pause();
wmp.controls.stop();
wmp.controls.fastForward();
wmp.controls.fastReverse();
wmp.settings.mute = true;
wmp.settings.volume = 50;
wmp.fullScreen = true;
wmp.URL = ‘./videos/my_video.wmv’;
