About the Version 6.4 Player Control

This section introduces the basics of the Windows Media Player version 6.4 control, which enables you to easily enrich static content with dynamic, interactive functionality. The Windows Media Player control is a Microsoft ActiveX control. You can insert it into applications created with Microsoft Visual Basic® or embed it in Web pages, controlled through Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) or Microsoft JScript®.

To use all of the script commands covered in this section, you must have Windows Media Player version 6.4 installed on your machine.

For more information about developing applications using ActiveX controls, see the Microsoft Component Object Model Web pages.

For information about scripting ActiveX controls, see the Microsoft Scripting Web pages.

This section contains the following articles.

• Introducing the Version 6.4 Windows Media Player Control
• What's New for the Windows Media Player Control?
• What Background Do You Need?
• Placing the Windows Media Player Control in a Web Page
• About Windows Media Player 9 Series Backward Compatibility in Web Pages
• Placing the Windows Media Player Control in a Visual Basic Application
• Architecture