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Peter - 22 Oct 2004 19:39 GMT

Hi,

I am developing an application that requires displaying video file using
media player on my iPaq 4700 using internet explorer. I have media player 9
on pocket pc.

I wrote a html file that embeds the media player as an object. I use

CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95

when embed the media player.

But somehow, when I load the htm page to my pocket pc, the internet explorer
doesn't show the player at all on the page.

I would really appreicate if anybody can provide some suggestions.

Thanks,

Peter

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 23 Oct 2004 15:32 GMT

Yes, you also need to load the WM ActiveX control for PPC which isn't
supplied by default with the player. Look in the SDK documentation
folders, you'll find a file called wmnall.exe - run this and it will
install the PPC ActiveX to your device.

Embedded media player should then be possible - though for WMP9 using
this control, Pocket IE will crash & burn if you use PARAM tags in the
object. The workaround is to pass in params using javascript once the
page has loaded.

HTH
CHeers - Neil

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Peter - 24 Oct 2004 09:23 GMT

Neil,

Thanks for the reply. After I installed wmnall.exe on my PPC, I could load
the WMP embedded html page on my PPC. However, two problems remain:

1) how to use javascript to add parameters

For example, if I want to add the following:

<PARAM NAME="Filename" VALUE="\My Documents\wm_sample.wmv">

how should I use javascript to add?

2) as I mentioned in another post, the display seems to be screwed up. After
loading the html page, if I trigger a pop up menu, it will stay on the screen
and overlapping with the media player even after I turned the menu off. Or
when I use the scroll bar to move the page up and down, the WMP disply
doesn't referesh fast enough, which causes the window being splitted, and
some unwanted lines appearing. Is there any solution for this, such enlarge
memory or something?

Thanks for your help and I appreciate it.

Peter

> Yes, you also need to load the WM ActiveX control for PPC which isn't
> supplied by default with the player. Look in the SDK documentation
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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 24 Oct 2004 13:42 GMT

Peter - is there any reason you started a new thread ? I find it hard
to follow this stuff if you throw away the thread information and
begin a new one. Anyway - comments inline :

>Neil,
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>how should I use javascript to add?

Let's assume you used an HTML ID of 'Player' for your embedded media
player. Then you would set the URL as follows : call this onload from
your body tag

function loadplayercontrols() {
Player.FileName="\\My Documents\\wm_sample.wmv";
Player.Play();
}

Note the double backslash in Local file paths, as Javascript uses \ as
an escape character, so \\ is equivalent to a single \

>2) as I mentioned in another post, the display seems to be screwed up. After

You did ? Which other post ? Where ? There are about 28000 messages in
this newsgroup, let alone others. Perhaps rather than me searching for
the post, you could add it to this thread ?

>loading the html page, if I trigger a pop up menu, it will stay on the screen
>and overlapping with the media player even after I turned the menu off. Or
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Peter - 25 Oct 2004 06:35 GMT

Neil, sorry to make it difficult to follow. Just ignore what I have said
about "other post" and also the other thread.

Thanks for providing the example on adding parameters using javascript.
That's very helpful.

Now here is the display problem. After loading the html page, if I trigger a
pop up menu, it will stay on the screen and overlapping with the media player
even after I turned the menu off. Or when I use the scroll bar to move the
page up and down, the WMP disply doesn't referesh fast enough, which causes
the window being splitted, and some unwanted lines appearing. Is there any
solution for this, such enlarge memory or something?

By the way, I am working on a HP iPaq 4705 (running PPC 2003) with WMP 9 on
it. But I could get any other model for my project. Just to let me know my
options.

Thanks,

Peter

> Peter - is there any reason you started a new thread ? I find it hard
> to follow this stuff if you throw away the thread information and
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lauysstephen - 07 Nov 2004 04:38 GMT

hi, i am using HP ipaq 4150 Pocket PC 2003. I have wrote following cod
to get data from a video streaming server, which use windows medi
encoder.
However, it just can stream audio, but can display video.
Is any idea to solve??
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<html>

<body>

<h1>Test video streaming</h1>

<object id="Player"
width="200" height="220"
classID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
type="application/x-oleobject">
</object>

<script language="JScript">
// Initialize the variables needed
// to store the marker information.
var fileNames = new Array();

// This function opens and plays the specified file.
function openFile(filename) {
if (filename) {
Player.FileName = filename;
} else {
alert("You must enter a file name first.");
}
}
</script>

<script for="Player" event="Error()" language="JScript">
alert(Player.ErrorDescription);
</script>

<form>
<b> Video Server Address:<br>
</b> <input name="filename" type="text" size="15" />
<input type="button" value="Open" onClick="openFile(filename.value)
/> <br />
</form>

</body>

</html>
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-
lauysstephe

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 07 Nov 2004 13:39 GMT

You said : >However, it just can stream audio, but can display video.

So, is your problem with audio, or is ithe problem the video?

Cheers - Neil

>hi, i am using HP ipaq 4150 Pocket PC 2003. I have wrote following code
>to get data from a video streaming server, which use windows media
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Peter - 24 Oct 2004 09:37 GMT

Neil,

Essentially, what I am trying to do is to have a cutomized WMP, with some
extra control buttons (like pause, cut, etc.) added to the skin. I am not
sure what is the best way to do it. I checked using embedded vc++ 4.0 or
visual studio .net 2003 for developing a standalone application, but I
haven't found any useful clue for doing what I need to do. Using html page
and javascript seemed to be a good choice. But with the problems I have
encounted so far, I am not sure neither.

So any insights would be highly appreciated.

Peter

> Yes, you also need to load the WM ActiveX control for PPC which isn't
> supplied by default with the player. Look in the SDK documentation
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JWHL - 16 Nov 2004 23:00 GMT

<<<The workaround is to pass in params using javascript once the pag
has loaded.>>>

How do I do that? How do I "pass in params using javascript"???...ca
you post an example of a simple code???...I just want to use PocketI
to play a file already on my PDA....The IE page on my PDA contains th
text to an audio book and the mp3 on my PDA contains the reading o
it...I'd like to follow along using just one program (PocketIE)...An
help in this regard is very much appreciated...Thank yo

-
JWH

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 18 Nov 2004 10:36 GMT

Well, each <PARAM NAME = "parameter name" VALUE = "parameter value"/>
has a corresponding Javascript value which you can use to set it,
instead of adding the PARAM tag (which crashes the player).

Full examples are in the SDK, it's too verbose to list here, but lets
try some : Add this to the BODY tag of your HTML.

<body onLoad="loadplayercontrols()">

<object id="Player" width="240" height="240" class="back"
classid="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" standby="Loading
Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
</object>

The BODY onload="blah" will ensure the javascript doesn't try to set
up the player object *before* the page loads completely (and therefore
would generate javascript errors)

Then try in the HEAD of your HTML page :

<script language="javascript">
function loadplayercontrols() {
//    Player.EnableFullScreenControls=true;
//    Player.TransparentAtStart=true;
//    Player.VideoBorderWidth=15;
//    Player.VideoBorderWidth="#FFCC00";
    Player.ShowGotoBar=true;
    Player.ShowControls=true;
    Player.ShowPositionControls=true;

//    Player.FileName="\\My Documents\\html\\trailer.wmv";
    Player.FileName="http://192.168.10.153:85/test.asx";
    Player.Play();
}
</script>

Some of the possible properties are commented out.

Change the FileName to either the local file name (which is commented
out) *remembering* that you need to use back slashes for PPC file
paths \ but in Javascript you need to *double* them \\ for each
directory ! If you uncomment the local My Documents file path, of
course, comment out the http:// file path, this was pointing to my
local web server ;-)

You can swap out true for false to try the effect of turning off some
of the control bars. The results might not be exactly as you expect,
some bars like the slider depend on other bars being available.

HTH
CHeers - Neil

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>help in this regard is very much appreciated...Thank you

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cherviralas - 22 Mar 2005 02:51 GMT

My application requires me to embed the Windows Media Player in a web page or
a stand alone Application where I can insert the WM Player.

I am using HP iPAQ H3615, this is a WiFi based Pocket PC phone(GPRS) with TI
OMAP processor. It has preinstalled Windows Media Player 9 Series. I tried to
use the HTML code to add the WM Player to a Web Page. However I couldn't
display the WM Player on the web page. After going through comments in this
Newsgroup, I tried to install the wmnall.exe on this PPC, however I couldn't
install as this executable file is for Pocket PC 3.0, where as my Pocket PC
is having Pocket PC 2003 OS.

Also, I found on the Microsoft website that OCX control called WMP v6.4 is
need on the Pocket PC in order to embed the WM Player in the Pocket PC 2003.
Do you know where I can find this OCX control.

I appreciate your help.

Warm Regards,
Srinivas

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> has a corresponding Javascript value which you can use to set it,
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> >help in this regard is very much appreciated...Thank you

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Arvind - 22 Mar 2005 07:24 GMT

i ahve the setup for that.. mail me sothat i can send u as a mail atachment

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cherviralas - 22 Mar 2005 19:05 GMT

Thanks Arvind.

I sent an e-mail to you so that you can send the setup as an e-mail
attachment. I appreciate your help.

Best Regards,
Srinivas Chervirala

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Robert Burdick - 18 Oct 2007 22:25 GMT

Can anyone show me how to get a sample like this to work with HTTP? I want
to play files stored on a web server, and specifying a URL as the FileName
for the player never works.

> Thanks Arvind.
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> > > > >help in this regard is very much appreciated...Thank you

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