Embedding WMV or Where did I go wrong?

**Capt Quirk** · 04-18-2008, 08:27 AM

I am trying to keep the media player as sleek as possible, so I set controls to "False". Problem is, I still see those controls. What am I doing wrong?

Code:

<object classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112" type="application/x-oleobject" name="Back_In_The_Days" width="372" height="228" standby="Loading Windows Media Player components..." id="MediaPlayer">
  <param name="filename" value="http://guitargarage.tv/music/Billy_Chapman/Back_In_The_Days.wmv" />
  <param name="Showcontrols" value="False"/>
  <param name="autoStart" value="True"/>
  <embed src="http://guitargarage.tv/music/Billy_Chapman/Back_In_The_Days.wmv" autostart="True" width="372" height="228" type="application/x-mplayer2" name="Back_in_The_Days" filename="http://guitargarage.tv/music/Billy_Chapman/Back_In_The_Days.wmv"></embed>

**Bagi Zoltán** · 04-18-2008, 10:36 AM

Just a sudden idea, but I would try this as well
<param name="autoStart" value="0"/>

**Capt Quirk** · 04-18-2008, 11:11 AM

Hey Bagi, why 0? Wouldn't that be the same as False? If that is the case, I do want it to auto play. What I don't want, is for the controls to take up a bunch of space that could be used for the clip.

**rolda hayes** · 01:19 PM

Work fine on IE7 - But in FF... Hmmmm

Only critisism with what your doing is the user has no way in stopping the video (unless they rightclick the vid...)

Why not convert it to a flash movie?

That way you can add the controls over the top of the movie and give people a choice.
Plus, you reduce the issues with users having the right software to play the file in the first place.

Cool song by the way!

**Capt Quirk** · 04-20-2008, 10:10 AM

Hey Rolda, funny you should mention it working in IE, I discovered it does work better than FF. How Bizzarro!

The controls should be there, they are scrunched into the bottom of the i frame when I view it. I would love to get a much more streamlined player, but can't seem to get it. As for Flash, I don't want to go that route for two reasons- 1, I don't have the apps to do it right, and 2, I will eventually be doing live streams, and I don't know that Flash can do that as well or as easy as Windows Media.

By the way, I have uploaded a few new songs, so which one was it you liked? Oh, and Thanks so much for your honest views everyone.