Re: Windows Media Services streaming question

HTMLView will work fine - and using it, you can guarantee the player
in use is WMP7 or greater, and the browser is IE5.5 or later.

Seems a reasonably helpful thing to know when scripting ;-)

If you slap it in a web page, many of your users will encounter
problems, you won't have relatively easy access to the media library,
and you will have to write lots of script to test the brower culture
supports what you want to do.

Cheers - Neil


On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:56:02 -0800, hhgbye
<hhgbye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I guess I need to be more specific. I want users to be able to watch the
video and select files from a playlist, but I also need a custom button that
will skip back in the current file in 1 second increments. I've looked at the
HTMLView method, but it seems cumbersome. Am I best off simply using an
embedded player and building my 'custom player' around it on the web page?

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:23:39 -0800, hhgbye
<hhgbye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, my question is this:
is there a way to have streaming video from Windows Media Services open in
Media Player, but with a custom skin distributed from the server? I know you
can have the client download a package, but I'm wondering if there's some
less user-intensive way. I appreciate any help, and if this question is in
the wrong place, please point me to where I should ask it. Thanks!

I assume you're referring to this page :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/downpacks.aspx

Instead you could use an HTMLView, which only opens in the now playing
area of the player but gets you part way while retaining the users
familiarity with the existing player interface rather than a new skin

You'd create an ASX file referencing your HTMLView web page, which
embeds an instance of WMP, and in turn the embedded WMP references the
live stream location.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/CustomizedExp.aspx

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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