WMP not displaying with DHTML
I am trying to display Windows Media Player embedded in a page using the
technique described in the MS Knowledge base - calling a Javascript function
to load it, thereby avoiding the 'Click here to activate' message.
My code is straightforward:
<div Id="Movie"></div>
<script lang='Javascript'>
createMediaPlayer("Movie","mymovie.wmv",320,240);
</script>
with the createMediaPlayer function in a linked js file:
function createMediaPlayer(DivID,movie,width,height)
{
var d = document.getElementById(DivID);
d.InnerHTML = '<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=' + width + ' HEIGHT=' +
height + ' classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"' +
'codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112"' +
'standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."' +
'type="application/x-oleobject">' +
'<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="' + movie + '">' +
'<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">' +
'<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="1">' +
'<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="1">' +
'<PARAM NAME="AutoSize" VALUE="1">' +
'<Embed type="application/x-mplayer2"' +
'pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx/"' +
'filename="' + movie + '"' +
'src="' + movie + '"' +
'Name=MediaPlayer' +
'ShowControls=1' +
'ShowDisplay=1' +
'ShowStatusBar=1' +
'width=' + width +
' height=' + height + '></embed></OBJECT>';
}
The code runs correctly but the WMP object never displays. I have put in an
alert to show the DIV's inner HTML and that is correct so I know the
javascript function is running.
I use the same technique to display Flash objects and they work fine.
The code for them is:
<div Id="Flash"></div>
<script lang='Javascript'>
createFlashControl("Flash","myflash.swf",320,240);
</script>
and
function createFlashControl(DivID,movie,width,height)
{
var d = document.getElementById(DivID);
d.innerHTML = '<object
classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="'
+ width + '" height="' + height + '" id="Shell" align="middle"><param
name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="'
+ movie + '" /><param name="quality" value="high"/><embed src="' +
movie + '" quality="high" width="' + width + '" height="' + height
+ '" name="Shell" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/></object>';
}
Anyone got any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
