| Controlling Windows Media Player with Firefox/Mozilla
.controls is void for Windows Media Player embedded object |
smo47
msg:1588698 | 6:02 am on Jun 29, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Hi, In trying to embed and control the Windows Media Player in a somewhat browser independent way. Using the following HTML
<embed src="test.wmv" name="MyMediaPlayer" controls="ImageWindow" autostart="0" showcontrols="0" height="200" width="320" />
I try to then control the player via javascript
document.MyMediaPlayer.controls.play();
document.MyMediaPlayer.controls.stop(); ... etc...
This works fine and dandy in IE, but, in Firefox/Mozilla .controls is void. :( I rummaged about and found a suggestion to try
document.MyMediaPlayer.play();
But Firefox reports that .play() is undefined. :( Any ideas?
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Robin_reala
msg:1588699 | 6:37 am on Jun 29, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I'm no expert here, but I'm guessing that you're not callig the reference correctly. Try giving your <embed> id="MyMediaPlayer" then call it with: document.getElemntById('MyMediaPlayer').controls.play();
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smo47
msg:1588700 | 3:25 pm on Jun 29, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the response. I'm not getting an undefined error on the reference to document.MyMediaPlayer In the Javascript debugger I can see all the standard properties of document.MyMediaPlayer & .controls is void. But for grins, I changed the embed as per your suggestion.
<embed src="test.wmv" name="MyMediaPlayer" id="MyMediaPlayer" controls="ImageWindow" autostart="0" showcontrols="0" height="200" width="320" />
I then looked at document.MyMediaPlayer and document.getElementById('MyMediaPlayer') using the debugger. They were the same object with .controls set to void. Maybe it's the case that Microsoft does not give the <embed> object any access to .controls and requires ActiveX. :(
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