Posted by cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com on 12/05/05 08:02

cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com wrote:

> You do not need script or ActiveX, if I understand you correctly. By
> adjusting the parameters for the WMP ordinary object, you can create a
> button on the main page to play the audio. See
> http://www.cwdjr.info/media/streamtest.html . See the source code of
> this page, and read the instructions for the wax redirector file shown
> at the bottom of the page. The code is valid at the W3C validator up to
> xhtml 1.1. Mine is written at the 1.1 level, to check validation, but I
> served it as html to avoid the complication of the php include, as you
> do not seem to be using xhtml. This code works on the latest versions
> of IE6, Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera. It even works on the old
> Netscape 4.8, although the button appears a little funky on this old
> relic. You can adjust the style in the division to change the style of
> the text you use along with the button for audio.

You can also extend to the Real player and a m3u playlist to give the
maximum chance of playing your sound. See
http://www.cwdjr.info/media/streamtest2.html . Since some players may
be installed on some browsers and not others and since different
players may be made the primary player for different file types, there
is a huge number of combinations of how a computer can be set up for
playing sound. On my setup, the IE6 plays the sound on both the WMP and
Real players. It plays the m3u playlist using the Winamp player. On my
several other browsers, both the WMP and Real players work. However the
mu3 play list does not.

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