If you read my article – you’ll see that I declare that I am neither a Windows Media expert nor an expert in the IE Mobile browser. The thrust of my article is that streaming Windows Media audio in a mobile browser is a dicey proposition, at best, for mobile devices with OSes that aren’t Windows Mobile.

That said – I did do some research and have a few more syntax examples for you to try. Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn’t provided an authoritative example of integrating its mobile media player into IE Mobile. Look at this Multimedia Streaming on Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 article @ MSDN and Embedded Media Player in Mobile Web Form forum thread @ ASP.NET forums.

The articles provide two related syntax examples.

Here’s the MSDN code sample:


<object id="MediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" type="application/x-oleobject" width="320" height="240" style="position:absolute; left:50px;top:50px;" >
<param name="FileName" value="http://example.microsoft.com/media/sample.asf">
<param name="ShowControls" value="1">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1">
</object>


And the sample from the ASP.NET forum thread:


<object id="MMPlayer1"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
type="application/x-oleobject" height="238" width="240" align="middle"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95">
<param name="FileName" value="your video's url that you typed in media player"/>
<param name="ShowControls" value="1"/>
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1"/>
<param name="ShowDisplay" value="0"/>
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="Slide"/>
<param name="PlayCount" value="1"/>
<param name="Autostart" value="1"/>
<embed
src="your video's url that you typed in media player" width="240" height="238" autostart="1" loop="0"
align="absmiddle" type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/download/default.asp"
showcontrols="1" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="1" > </embed>
</object>


The differences between these examples and mine are:

• My example uses the object and embed tags. The MSDN example uses only the object tag. I've read that when targeting IE Mobile only, the embed tag can be omitted because its purpose is compatibility with non-IE browsers that do not run ActiveX controls.
• Both examples here include the type attribute for the object tag.
• My example sets several options for the Mobile Media Player ActiveX control using param tags and attributes of the embed element.

I no longer have a Windows Mobile device and can't test these examples. Please do report back the syntax that works in your tests so I can update this thread!

I’m trying to embed a WMA stream onto a client’s mobile-friendly page and am having all KINDS of problems… Any time I use the tag to embed, it returns a NULL object and doesn’t display, on the mobile (test platform is WM6.1).

Recently I’ve learned (as I’m new to developing for mobile devices) that the tag is unsupported, ergo not a viable option for embedding even a Windows Media player.

That said, I’ve noticed that using your code, as an example for embedding on a mobile-device, even *IT* doesn’t work.

Any help?

The URL is the same as supplied, above and it autodetects mobile, forwarding the user on to ‘m.DOMAIN’, appropriately.

The ‘Listen’ link is the top one, in the grey box.

Thanks for any help you can afford me!

Ant