Media Player Plugin For Firefox
More browser features, fewer plugin updates. Tired of updating pluginsFirefox has you covered. As the web moves forward, so do we. Firefox now supports more features that used to require plugins, so you can browse with fewer crashes and interruptions. Plus, our blocklist system protects you between updates. Download Firefox. English US. Your system may not meet the requirements for Firefox, but you can try one of these versions. Download Firefox. English US. Your system doesnt meet the requirements to run Firefox. Your system doesnt meet the requirements to run Firefox. Please follow these instructions to install Firefox. Firefox Privacy Notice. How to build ASP. NET Media Player Control. Just before few years video was rarity on web sites, mostly because Internet connection for many people was slow. Today almost everyone have high speed connection and video on web site is used where is needed, depending only of webmasters needs. Yet, ASP. NET dont have some specific method for showing video files. There are many options, more or less complex that you need to consider and select the most appropriate one. Also, there are many video formats used, problems with web browser compatibility, different client operating systems etc. The fast and easy ways to play video on web page. Internet Explorer has interesting dynsrc parameter for the lt img tag. The code can look like this lt imgdynsrcMy. Video. avi This will show video only by using simple image HTML tag. How to enable your browser to play the Spotify web player. Installing the new plugin. Firefox and SeaMonkey users on Windows XP and above can install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin provided by Microsoft. Testing Flash. Note If the Flash plugin is installed, make sure it is enabled in the Firefox 3. SeaMonkey 2 Addons Manager otherwise. Find out how to get Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows Media Player 12 for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Media Player Plugin For Firefox' title='Media Player Plugin For Firefox' />But, it is not compatible with every web browser. In fact, it works only with Internet Explorer, but it can be satisfactory solution in some scenarios. More compatible solution is to use lt embed tag. This solution is better since it is supported by different web browsers notice that it is not recommended by W3. C as standard HTML. Code can look like this lt embedsrcMy. Blu Ray Player Mac Serial Number more. Video. avi Instead of using of lt embed tag, W3. C recommends lt object tag. Here is the code to display WMV video file with lt object HTML tag lt objectheight3. My. Movie. wmv lt object Display video with Media Player active X control in Internet Explorer. More flexible way to show video on your ASP. NET web site is to use Windows Media Player active X control. Media player is probalbly already used by most of your site visitors. So they feel familiar with it. Also, Media Player supports many different file types. This control in Internet Explorer web browser is presented with lt object HTML tag with code like this lt OBJECT. CLASSIDCLSID 6. BF5. A5. 2 3. 94. A 1. B1. 53 0. C0. 4F7. FAA6. VIEWASTEXT lt PARAM. Start. valueFalse lt PARAM. MoviePljacka. wmv lt PARAM. True lt PARAM. PARAM. Position. value0 lt PARAM. Context. Menu. valueTrue lt PARAM. Screen. valueFalse lt PARAM. False lt PARAM. Count. PARAM. PARAM. namestretch. To. Fit. valueFalse lt PARAM. OBJECT To show video file in Media Player control, you need to place proper HTML code into the web form. As you can see, this code contains one lt object tag with some lt param tags inside which represents Media Player properties. By using these properties you can adopt Media Player look an feel to your web site design. The lt object tag contains width and height properties to set Media Player control size, and also CLASSID property. This property value is CLSID 6. BF5. 2A5. 2 3. 94. A 1. 1d. 3 B1. 53 0. C0. 4F7. 9FAA6. Somewhere on the Internet you can find other value clsid 2. D6. F3. 12 B0. F6 1. D0 9. 4AB 0. 08. C7. Codec Ac3 Per Virtualdub. C7. E9. 5. Second value is for older versions of Media Player, up to version 6. For Media Player version 7 or later, you should use first id. Display Media Player control in Firefox web browser. Firefox web browser uses lt object or lt embed tags to show Media Player control. Before you try this, Firefox needs the Windows Media Player browser plugin installed. You can download the plugin here. After you install a plugin, you can check is it installed correctly on Windows Media Player Plugin Test Player XPVista. Then, if test video file is played correctly, you can try to play your video file with HTML code like this. EMBEDtypevideox ms wmvwidth4. FalseURL. MoviePljacka. Position0. enable. Context. MenuTrue. ScreenFalse. stretch. TofitFalse. ui. Mode3 Media Player Control properties. Available Media Player control properties are shown in table bellow. Property. Default value Description Audio. Stream true Auto. Size true Auto. Start true Would movie start when page is loaded. Animation. At. Start true Would animation will play until video file is loaded. Allow. Scan true Allow. Change. Display. Size true Auto. Rewind false Balance false Base. URL Buffering. Time 5 Captioning. ID Click. To. Play true Would Media Player start when user clicks. Cursor. Type false. Current. Position true Current. Marker false Default. Frame Display. Back. Color false Display. Fore. Color 1. 67. Display. Mode false Display. Size false Enabled true Enable. Context. Menu true Enable. Position. Controls true Enable. Full. Screen. Controls false Enable. Tracker true Filename URL Set the absolute or relative URL of file to play. Invoke. URLs true Language true Mute false Play. Count 1 Preview. Mode false Rate 1 SAMILang SAMIStyle SAMIFile. Name Selection. Start true Selection. End true Send. Open. State. Change. Events true Send. Warning. Events true Send. Error. Events true Send. Keyboard. Events false Send. Mouse. Click. Events false Send. Mouse. Move. Events false Send. Play. State. Change. Events true Show. Captioning false Show. Controls true Show Media Player controls or not. Show. Audio. Controls true Are audio controls visible or not. Show. Display false Is display visible or not. Show. Goto. Bar false Is Goto. Bar visible or not. Show. Position. Controls true Show. Status. Bar false Show. Tracker true Transparant. At. Start false Video. Border. Width false Video. Border. Color false Video. Border. 3D false Volume 2. Windowless. Video false As you can see, Windows Media Player control has many properties. You are not required to set it all. If some property is not used, then control uses its default value. Of course, some property like File. Name we must use if we want to play anything. Custom ASP. NET Media Player Control. Placing static HTML code for Media Player control will not be very efficient method. It is much better to make custom ASP. NET server control which will render correct HTML code depending of property values. This custom control can be used easily by ASP. NET web application, to show play lists, to remember user preferences etc. Control will automatically detect web browser type and render appropriate HTML code. You can download ASP. NET Media Player Control assembly, compiled with ASP. NET 1. 1, ASP. NET 2. ASP. NET 3. 5. Complete source code is available in both Visual Basic. Net and C programming languages. How to use ASP. NET Media Control on web page. To use ASP. NET Media Control in your web project, you need to follow these simple steps. Download the package and unzip it somewhere. Add ASP. NET Media Control to Visual Studio toolbox. ASP. NET Media Player Control added to toolbox. Place control to web page. ASP. NET Media Player Control on web form. Set controls properties. You are required to set Movie. URL property, to set absolute or relative URL to file. All other properties you need to set only if you dont want its default value. All properties related to playing media are located inside of Settings category. Controls properties. Start the web application and enjoy the movie. ASP. NET Media Player Control at run time. Conclusion. I tested this ASP. NET control in Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers and it worked fine. In both cases it render correct HTML and Media Player plays. Of course, this software is still not tested enough. If you find some bug or you have an idea which new feature to add to control please let us know. Going professional with ASPNet.