Windows Media Player: How To Embed WMV File In HTML Code?

Thanks to many photo/video hosting sites available for free (but restricted to certain rules), e.g. Flickr and YouTube, everyone has an easier way to share their happiness captured in digital media files over the Net.

Some buddies, however, would like to share them entirely on their personal weblogs (thank to WordPress and Web 2.0 that have made it possible).

OK, embedding pictures in HTML and show the photos inline on a webpage is easy as usual. But, it needs more typing to embed video in HTML and stream the video content inline on a webpage.

Embedded image/video VS Inline image/video

In brief, “embedded image/video” present an URL or HTML link to the media file that might invoke a download process for the target file, a new browser window to display the media file, or invoke a third party program (non-browser application) to open the media file.

Then, “inline image/video” means web browser understand how to open and display the media file inside the same browser window, in line of the text surrounding it.

How to embed Windows Media Video/WMV file in HTML code and stream the video content inline on a webpage?

Windows Media Video/WMV file sample:
http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv

Embedded WMV file:

The code:

<a href="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv">HP iPAQ Business Navigator</a>

The result:
HP iPAQ Business Navigator

Inline WMV file:

The sample of code:

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="480" height="360" codebase="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/">
<param name="Filename" value="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv">
<param name="AutoStart" value="true">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="BufferingTime" value="2">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<param name="AutoSize" value="true">
<param name="InvokeURLs" value="false">
<embed src="http://walkernewsdownload.googlepages.com/HP-iPaq-614.wmv" type="application/x-mplayer2" autostart="1" enabled="1" showstatusbar="1" showdisplay="1" showcontrols="1" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,0,0" width="480" height="360"></embed>
</object>

The result of the sample code:

Note: You might need to download and install Windows Media Player plugin/add-on to play inline Windows Media Player files.



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