About the Player Control

The Media Player control exposes methods and properties for manipulating multimedia playback from a Web page or application. Functionality exposed by the methods and properties includes:

• Building custom user interfaces on top of the control. Buttons, boxes, and menus can be incorporated into your Web page or application for administering the control.
• Performing VCR-like functions such as start, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind, mute, and volume adjustment.
• Monitoring stream and station performance.
• Retrieving information about the content, such as title, author, and copyright date.

Your application or Web page can also be designed to respond to event messages fired by the control. Events that trigger the control to fire an event include:

• Warnings and errors encountered by the control.
• Changes in the state of the stream changes, such as from a play state to a paused state.
• Keyboard and mouse input.
• The control disconnecting from a stream server.
• Script commands being received by the control.

The Media Player is also provided as a standalone Player application based on the same technology as the Player control. However, the control allows you to create a user interface unique to your content, process any type of script commands, and integrate multimedia presentations into larger Web applications.