Windows Media Player 11 SDK Creating Web-Based Presentations 

Creating Web-Based Presentations

The Windows Media Player control lets you easily create Web-based slide-show presentations that combine audio and video with HTML. By adding URL-type script commands to your media files, you can cause specified Web pages to display in a specified Web browser frame at specific times during digital media playback.

Windows Media Player also features rich media streaming to enable efficient delivery of HTML data over a network inside a single Windows Media stream or file. The Player and server handle the smooth, timely delivery of audio, video, and HTML to the browser. Just as in Web presentations that do not use rich media streaming, embedded script commands render the presentation in a specified browser frame at specified times.

A typical layout for Web-based presentations uses two frames. One frame contains a Web page that embeds the Windows Media Player control and displays the video part of a presentation. The other frame displays Web pages that change at various times as the video plays.

If the digital media accompanying your Web pages contains audio only, you can hide the frame that contains the Windows Media Player control by setting its width to zero. This way, the audio can play uninterrupted in the background while your Web pages display in the full browser window.

The following sections describe common techniques for enabling Web-based presentations:

• URL Flipping
• Rich Media Streaming

See Also

• Player Control Guide