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ASF (Advanced Streaming Format)

The Windows Media Player is Microsoft's bid to get into the streaming media business and steal a bit of the thunder from RealMedia. The player is available for Windows and MacOS and, like the Real Player, will play most common media formats as well as its own ASF (Advanced Streaming Format). Unlike Real, all streaming services are freely available - if you're using an NT server. Otherwise, you can serve the material but without all the extra features available.

This link will open up the windows media player application.

salmon.asf

Alternatively the video clip (well actually the player) can be embeded into your web page like so...

The HTML code

<!-- START HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER IN IE -->

<object id="MMPlayer1" width=320 height=240 
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase=
"http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." 
type="application/x-oleobject">
	<param name="FileName" value="salmon.asf">
	<param name="ShowControls" value="1">
	<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1">
	<param name="ShowDisplay" value="0">
	<param name="DefaultFrame" value="Slide">
	<param name="Autostart" value="0">            
</object>

<!-- END HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER IN IE -->

The HTML tag ( ELEMENT ) used to acheive this is the OBJECT tag.

The OBJECT tag is only recognised in Browsers based on Internet Explorer.

If you wanted to ensure the the player was embeded in pages viewed by Netscape, you would need the following code. 


<!-- START HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER IN NETSCAPE -->

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage=
"http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
src="salmon.asf" autostart=0 showcontrols=1 showdisplay=0
showstatusbar=1 
defaultframe="Slide" width=320 height=240 
filename="salmon.asf">
</embed> 

<!-- END HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER IN NETSCAPE -->

The EMBED tag is the equivalent of IE's OBJECT tag for use in Netscape
type browsers.

Finally, if you wanted to ensure that the player would be embedded into most popular browsers, you would use the following HTML code... 

	
<!-- START GENERIC ALL BROWSER FRIENDLY HTML
FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER -->

<object id="MMPlayer1" width=320 height=240 
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95"
codebase="
http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject">
            <param name="FileName" value="salmon.asf">
            <param name="ShowControls" value="1">
            <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1">
            <param name="ShowDisplay" value="0">
            <param name="DefaultFrame" value="Slide">
            <param name="Autostart" value="0">
			
            <embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage=
"http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
src="salmon.asf" autostart=0 showcontrols=1 showdisplay=0 
showstatusbar=1 defaultframe="Slide" width=320 height=240 
filename="salmon.asf">
            </embed>
			 
          </object>
		  
<!-- END GENERIC ALL BROWSER FRIENDLY HTML
FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER -->

To try this code for yourself put it into the BODY of one of your HTML documents and then save the clip to your own folder which contains your HTML file.

To do this click the right mouse button over this link...

Then select " Save Target As... " and save the clip to the folder you have been using for your HTML documents.

Save the file as salmon (salmon.asf)s

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