Streaming media

[Lynn Robson]

Further arlier post I have installed the windows media player plug in into
Frontpage.
I find this is an entirely satisfactory way to get most website viewers
listening to music on the site.
I do have a problem with it though, in that when I go through the wizard it
embeds the player (invisibly in this case as I don't need it for video) but
as a cell of rather large proportions which I can't resize down to nothing.
Better still if I don't actually need to have window for it at all, so that
it can play away in the background with no visual effect.
As the invisible cell can't be written over it leaves a large vacant hole in
the page which can't be used for anything else.
Real was better for this as I just embedded the music and it played along in
the background.
Is there some way to do this on the WM player plug in?

 

[Vonzy]

I'm using Frontpage 2003, where the windows media player plug refused to
install - never mind ( I was not running Office it said ), got it sorted
out in another way:
To only use start/pause and stop buttons only use this simple code, that I
had to search for during a long time to find:
<EMBED
SRC="Mix1.wav"
HEIGHT=28 WIDTH=79>

This will be a WinMedia player showing (!) , playing Mix1.wav, you can try
different sizes, and when pasting this code - use as html
After this is done you can right click at this 'component' and use hidden,
its also possible to use sources that not are on your site - right now I got
some video in 800kbit/s showing on mine.
When showing video its important to keep the aspect in Height & Width, test
different sizes there as well.
I'm still impressed over this very simple way to add a player.
When making it larger, all buttons will be there, plus the video area.
I have found almost Zero information from MS, about adding audio or video in
their online help etc. = bad...
Good luck with your player, hope that you will find this amazing little code
useful.
(also try smaller size than in my example, guess you can get very close to
0)