How Media Players Can Use HTML+TIME

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February 15, 1999

Any media player that supports the ITIMEMediaPlayer interface can be used as an HTML+TIME media element. As such, the player can support HTML+TIME media, and its media content can be integrated with the rest of the timing on an HTML+TIME page.

An HTML+TIME author can specify that any media file use a particular media player for playback, as long as the specified media player implements the ITIMEMediaPlayer interface. The following example shows how to do this.

<t:VIDEO STYLE="behavior:url(#DEFAULT#TIME)"
    t:BEGIN="5" 
    t:SRC="http://example.microsoft.com/vidfile1.avi" 
    t:PLAYER="GUID_of_VIDEOPLAYER1" />
<t:VIDEO STYLE="behavior:url(#DEFAULT#TIME)" 
    t:BEGIN="5" 
    t:SRC="http://example.microsoft.com/vidfile2.avi" 
    t:PLAYER="GUID_of_VIDEOPLAYER2" />
<t:AUDIO STYLE="behavior:url(#DEFAULT#TIME)" 
    t:BEGIN="0" 
    t:SRC="http://example.microsoft.com/audfile1.wav" 
    t:PLAYER="GUID_of_AUDIOPLAYER1" />
<t:AUDIO STYLE="behavior:url(#DEFAULT#TIME)" 
    t:BEGIN="0" 
    t:SRC="http://example.microsoft.com/audfile2.wav" 
    t:PLAYER="GUID_of_AUDIOPLAYER2" />

The following topics describe the methods that media players must implement or use to support HTML+TIME:

• ITIMEMediaPlayer describes methods that enable initializing, playing, pausing, stopping, and setting the properties of the media player within HTML+TIME.
• TIMEMediaPlayerEvents describes methods that enable the media player to generate events within HTML+TIME.