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Windows Media Player Object Model

The Microsoft® Windows Media™ Player ActiveX® control object model provides scripting interfaces to give Web developers the opportunity to add Windows Media Player functionality to Web pages. By embedding the control in an HTML page, the developer can use Internet Explorer to craft visually complex graphical environments that take advantage of a rich and dynamic event model. The developer can completely sculpt the Web-site user's audio and video experience.

If you have worked with previous versions of the Windows Media Player ActiveX control, please read the topic called What's New, because this version has many changes that are significant.

The Windows Media Player ActiveX control object model documentation is presented in the following sections.

Section Description
About the Player Object Model Discusses the architecture of the version 7 or later object model in abstract terms. You can read this section if you want to know more about how things work "under the hood."
Player Control Guide Explains what you need to do to program using the version 7 or later control object model. Read this section unless you are already familiar with using ActiveX controls on a Web page and know how the Windows Media Player control works.
Object Model Reference Documents every method, property, and event that the version 7 or later object model exposes. Read the topics that refer to the functionality that you want to use.
Windows Media Player Version 6.4 Plug-in for Netscape Navigator Explains what you need to do to use Windows Media in the Netscape Navigator browser. There is also documentation in this section for Windows Media Player for Solaris and Windows Media Player for Mac.
Previous Version Documents Windows Media Player version 6.4, which can be embedded in COM-based documents and applications as well as Web pages.

Windows Media Player 7.1 does not support embedding the control in any applications that use Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual C++ through IDispatch. Also, version 7.1 does not support a Netscape Navigator plug-in. For these reasons, both the 6.4 and 7.1 versions of the control are installed when the end-user installs Windows Media Player. The new control and the old control have different ClassID numbers, different object models, and different sets of functionalities.

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