JoeBell
May 18, 2005, 10:06 AM
Hi,
I'm new here, and have questions re: a distribution CD. I have embedded Media Player in a web page on the CD, and the CD autostarts. I have the parameters set to also autostart the wmv movie, which it does on my box (WinXP Pro, Media Player 9, and I may also have the codecs installed for Media Player 6.4 but am not sure).
I embedded the player using code from a tut page online. The class id used is
CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95
and the codebase is
"http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
I'm confused about stuff I've read on the web about this coding. I think the clsid means it will embed players 6.4 up to 7 and play the movie on computers with one of these players installed. But what if a person only has Player 9 installed and not older codecs?
I tried the player using a clsid I found for Player 9. It changed the controls interface somewhat but the movie wouldn't play, even when the play button was pushed.
I've also gotten the impression that the codebase is used to automatically download the needed the components from the web if a person doesn't have the right player installed to match the codebase. Is my interpretation correct? If so, what happens if the computer is not connected to the internet when the CD is installed?
If I want to reach the largest audience with the CD, which class id should I use, and which codebase (the class id for Player 9 didn't include any codebase with it, so then what happens?). Can you put more than one class id in the code to cover everyone?
I just do not know what all these things mean and how they will effect the useability of the CD on various machines.
Can anyone give me a much better understanding of it?
As an ancillary question, one can burn a CD using some slideshow software that embeds a player on the CD, so inserting the CD starts the image slideshow using the player on the CD even if people don't have that player on their computers. Is that possible for movies and, if so, which types of movie files and where can a person find such players?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
JoeBell
I'm new here, and have questions re: a distribution CD. I have embedded Media Player in a web page on the CD, and the CD autostarts. I have the parameters set to also autostart the wmv movie, which it does on my box (WinXP Pro, Media Player 9, and I may also have the codecs installed for Media Player 6.4 but am not sure).
I embedded the player using code from a tut page online. The class id used is
CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95
and the codebase is
"http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
I'm confused about stuff I've read on the web about this coding. I think the clsid means it will embed players 6.4 up to 7 and play the movie on computers with one of these players installed. But what if a person only has Player 9 installed and not older codecs?
I tried the player using a clsid I found for Player 9. It changed the controls interface somewhat but the movie wouldn't play, even when the play button was pushed.
I've also gotten the impression that the codebase is used to automatically download the needed the components from the web if a person doesn't have the right player installed to match the codebase. Is my interpretation correct? If so, what happens if the computer is not connected to the internet when the CD is installed?
If I want to reach the largest audience with the CD, which class id should I use, and which codebase (the class id for Player 9 didn't include any codebase with it, so then what happens?). Can you put more than one class id in the code to cover everyone?
I just do not know what all these things mean and how they will effect the useability of the CD on various machines.
Can anyone give me a much better understanding of it?
As an ancillary question, one can burn a CD using some slideshow software that embeds a player on the CD, so inserting the CD starts the image slideshow using the player on the CD even if people don't have that player on their computers. Is that possible for movies and, if so, which types of movie files and where can a person find such players?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
JoeBell