Windows Media Player Cross Browser

This snippets shows a cross browser solution to embed a Windows Media Player movie in a web page.

September 21, 1998 This section explains how you can use scripting with the Windows Media Player and Windows NT Server NetShow Services to create rich multimedia.

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ASP.NET 2.0 is a very powerful, extensible web framework. Its component model allows for very efficient re-use of code and user interface designs.

As Microsoft created the entire framework, you might reasonably expect the default Toolbox to offer you a wide range of components to integrate with other Microsoft technologies. Technologies such as Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, Movie Maker or other client-side applications. Alas, this is not the case.

Out of the box, there is no support for adding a Windows Media Player to your ASP.NET website. When I was searching around the Internet, I managed to find a custom control that had been quickly put together. Unfortunately I can not find the source, so if you know of it, please contact me and I ll add an appropriate reference. That simple UserControl enabled the embedding of the Windows Media Player client into an ASP.NET web page.

However, the fatal flaw of this component is that it only works in Internet Explorer. Users of all other browsers are left in the dark, staring at a blank page.

With a few modifications, the component can be modified to output the necessary tags as well as the IE-only tags.

Click to download the source code to WMVPlayer.cs

The easiest way to use the control is to add it to your App_Code directory, rebuild your solution, and then right-click the Toolbox and select add component. In the dialog that appears, select the WindowsMediaPlayerComponent from the list.

You can then drag an embedded Windows Media Player onto your page in Design View. Don t forget to adjust the width and height, and set the content URL using the normal properties view.

To change the content in a listener, simply manipulate the control s Filename property. This is particularly useful when you have several movies or streams you want users to access from the same page. The following code shows the code behind for a simple use case:

public class MediaPage: System.Web.UI.Page

private WMVPlayer player new WMVPlayer ;

public void Page_Load object sender, System.EventArgs args

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So download the component, and send me a link to your electronic programme guide when you ve built it.

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ASP.NET 2.0 is a very powerful, extensible web framework. Its component model allows for very efficient re-use of code and user interface designs.

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A cross-browser Windows Media Player component for ASP.NET 2.0