I have had trouble getting Windows Media Player to consistently seek to markers embedded in the video itself, but it does seem to seek to specific timings. Some sample code is provided below:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Seeking to Specific Points in a Windows Media File</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>
<BODY leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<P align="center"><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<OBJECT id='mediaPlayer2' classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<PARAM name='fileName' value='markers.asx'>
<PARAM name='autoStart' value='1'>
<PARAM name='ShowControls' value='true'>
<PARAM name='EnableContextMenu' value='true'>
<PARAM name='EnableMarkerCount' value='true'>
<PARAM name='ShowGoToBar' value='true'>
<PARAM name='ShowStatusBar' value='true'>
<PARAM name='ShowTracker' value='true'>
<EMBED
src="markers.asx"
width="300"
height="290"
enablemarkercount="1"
enablecontextmenu="1"
enablefullscreencontrols="1"
enabletracker="1"
showcontrols="1"
showaudiocontrols="1"
showdisplay="1"
showgotobar="1"
showpositioncontrols="1"
showstatusbar="1"
showtracker="1"
allowchangedisplaysize="0" autorewind="0" balance="0" bufferingtime="3" filename="video.asx" videobordercolor="1" videoborderwidth="1" volume="-500" >
</EMBED> </OBJECT>
<BR>
<BR>
<A href='javascript;'onClick='javascript:mediaPlayer2.CurrentPosition=149; return false'>Jump
to 2</A> <BR>
<A href='javascript;'onClick='javascript:mediaPlayer2.CurrentPosition=268; return false'>Jump
to 3</A> <BR>
<A href='javascript;'onClick='javascript:mediaPlayer2.CurrentPosition=396; return false'>Jump
to 4 </A> </P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Ellen,
THANKS!!!
Your script is exactly what was needed!!
Posted by: peter on June 9, 2004 5:45 PMEllen,
my thanks were a bit premature. Our application places the video and links in one frame and target images in the other. Your example works great for just jumping to specific times within a single frame.
Maybe i can figure out how to tweak it a little?
Best regards.
Posted by: peter on June 9, 2004 6:01 PMA good source of info about scripting within frames is here
Posted by: Ellen on June 9, 2004 8:28 PMhttp://www.yourhtmlsource.com/javascript/scriptingframes.html