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I've put together a quick HOWTO on how to use this new Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox.

Feel free to check it out at:

http://www.therossman.org/experiments/wmp_play.html

It also shows that you can z-index with Flash content now, and shows a flash UI scripting the WMP in both Firefox and IE.

Cheers,

Rossman

With this new plugin I have been able to embed WMP in Firefox, and it plays an audio ok, but Im not able to get it to respond to scripting events in the .wma file, like highlighting html text at specified moments during the audio. This happens fine in IE.

Does anyone know a site with sample code that shows how (if its yet possible) to script for this in Firefox also?

Hi, I'm really interested in how to migrating it to the xulrunner platform.

Could you give me some suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

This does work with FireFox.  However, with WinXP and WMP 10 MSIE does not recognize the application/x-ms-wmp MIME type and shows the "image missing" indicator.

You can nest the OBJECT tags and use type="application/x-ms-wmp" for one OBJECT tag and "video/x-ms-wmv" for the other.  FireFox will ignore the "video" tag and work correctly.  IE, of course, will show the "image missing" tag for one and then show the video for the other.

I *FINALLY* got it.  This page explains the details, including sample code. It is not a bug. The various video pages on the site use this techique.

www.messianicworship.com/html/faq-firefox_resize.html

Rick Reinckens

I don't know if this blog is still active, but I'm trying to use your plug-in and I've got problems.

I've been through the documentation here;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb614511(VS.85).aspx

but most of the parameters are ignored by firefox.

There is also no response to any attempts to manipulate it by javascript (e.g. stop and play functions).

Has something changed since the plugins release? or is there a separate list of firefox parameters?

Please find the code

<script language="JavaScript" for="contentPlayer" event="playStateChange(newState)">

   wmpPlayStateChange(newState);

// This function will run every time the Play State changes in Windows Media Player

function wmpPlayStateChange(newState) {

    // alert the play state value in plain text for convenience

    //alert ( playstateValues[newState] );

var WMP9=new Object();

WMP9=document.getElementById("contentPlayer");

boxtest = document.getElementById("testBox");

boxtest.value = boxtest.value + WMP9.playstate;

if ( WMP9.playstate == 8 )

{

if(xmlHttp){

xmlHttp.abort();

}

//alert( "inside setFlashvar_WMP_status");

var xmlHttp = GetXmlHttpObject();

index = document.getElementById("hidden").value;

var url = "http://localhost:8080/Need4All/servlet/PlayList";

url = url + "?pickMethod=NU&asxFileName=sample.asx&index=" + index +"&time="+encodeURIComponent((new Date()).getTime());

//alert(url);

xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function ()

{

if (xmlHttp.readyState==4)

{

if (xmlHttp.status==200)

{

var response = xmlHttp.responseText;

document.getElementById("debug1").value = response;

var index = response.substring( 0 , response.indexOf("|]"));

//alert(index);

var url = response.substring( response.indexOf("|]") + 2);

//alert(url);

if ( url.indexOf(".wmv") == -1){

alert("does not contain wmv file");

}

//var WMP9=new Object();

//WMP9=document.getElementById("contentPlayer");

if (url != null)

{

WMP9.URL = url;

document.getElementById("hidden").value = index;

WMP9.controls.play();

}

//alert(WMP9.URL);

}

}

}

xmlHttp.send(null);

}

function OnDSPlayStateChangeEvt(NewState)

{

alert("inside state change event");

}

}

</script>

Unable to send playstatechangeevent in fir3efox. Please help.