Launch Windows Media Player - from a HTML snippet

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Launch Windows Media Player - from a HTML snippet

Hi Guys

anyone got the HTML code to launch WMP from an iWeb Snippet, I can launch QT as a seperate player and play my media (movies etc) from a Snippet, but I'm having problems tracking down the code to launch WMPlayer - I'm developing a local intranet site, and most if not all have PC's - shame as QT is far superior to WMP and just works - it does what it says on the tin -

thanks for ya help

Late 2008 Macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Jun 30, 2009 12:30 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 30, 2009 11:12 AM in response to Dacpro

Dacpro,

I don't think you can do this as if a PC user has (for example) RealPlayer to be the default player of media on his or her PC then trying to play a file in WMP will cause them major faffs. You should just allow them to open the file in which ever media player they want to.

AAi

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Old Toad

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Jun 30, 2009 12:43 PM in response to Dacpro

Roddy has some tips on that: convert to flash or use an html snippet to add the QT file. Why, the snippet I don't know. You can peruse his site here for his tips:

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/MusicPlayers/Players.html

http://roddymckay.com/VisualMedia/FlashVideo.html

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebandInternetExplorer.html

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2021995&tstart=0

Some of these links go to the same site, different pages.

OT

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