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March 26, 2000 JukeBox Principles Tips: March 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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In Internet Explorer, we embed the Media Player in the Web page as an ActiveX control. Since ActiveX control is unique to the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer, we need a method to play a streaming media with other operating systems and other browsers. The way to do it is by embedding the Media Player's Plugin in your page. When downloading the player, Microsoft server will identify your operating system and will download both the Media Player ActiveX control as well as its Plugin, either or both, whatever is playable on your computer.
The HTML tag that embeds the Media Player's Plugin is the
Learn more about our Netscape streaming media jukebox in Column 52, A Streaming Media JukeBox, Part II: Netscape Version.
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