Windows Media Player 6.4 SDK

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This documentation describes the Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 6.4 Software Development Kit (SDK). The Windows Media Player control version 6.4 is a Microsoft ActiveX® control used for adding multimedia playback capabilities to COM-based documents and applications, as well as Web pages. It provides a programming interface for rendering a variety of network streaming and nonstreaming multimedia formats. The Windows Media Player control version 6.4 incorporates many of the features of the Microsoft ActiveMovie® control and the Microsoft NetShow® Player version 2.0 control, as well as many other features.

Section Description
About the Version 6.4 Player Control Introduces the basics of the Windows Media Player control version 6.4.
Using the Version 6.4 Windows Media Player Control Describes how to use and program the control.
Version 6.4 Object Model Reference Provides a reference for each method, property, and event exposed by the Windows Media Player control.

This section of the SDK also includes information about the Windows Media Player Version 6.4 Plug-in for Netscape Navigator and the Windows Media Player Version 6.3 for Solaris.