Embedded windows media player looks ugly on my page

[Scally_Ally]

Hi all,

I have embedded windows media player on one of my sites to play videos, it all works fine but looks really nasty!.. it has a grey box beneath it for the controls and just looks very 1998.

Is there anyway i can make it look better, i have seen it done on other sites where the controls at the bottom look like media player 9 or 10. How would i go about doing this, (or is it due to what version of media player is installed on the server?)

Here is the code i am using to embed the player

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240 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="video/SYF 1995.wmv">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="AutoSize" VALUE="0">
<Embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/"
filename="video/SYF 1995.wmv"
src="video/SYF 1995.wmv"
Name=MediaPlayer
ShowControls=0
ShowDisplay=0
ShowStatusBar=0
width=320
height=240>
</embed>
</OBJECT>

Thanks

[Scally_Ally]

Its ok, have sorted it.

Found a page that shows all the functions of the mediaplayer and how to use them, so am just gonna make my own navigation bar and use these functions on there.

the pages i found useful are

[w3schools.com...]

[msdn.microsoft.com...]

Cheers

[tedster]

Thanks for the references, Scally_Ally. I'm sure they will help some folks with a similar issue.