Microsoft KB Archive/321684

= INFO: CODEBASE Attribute Is Not Supported for Downloading Windows Media Player 7 Control. =

Article ID: 321684

Article Last Modified on 2/11/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0

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This article was previously published under Q321684



SUMMARY
When you embed an ActiveX control in Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can specify the CODEBASE attribute in the OBJECT tag. The CODEBASE attribute contains a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This URL points to a Web site where the control can be downloaded if the control is not available on a user's system.

By design, you cannot use the CODEBASE attribute with the Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 control.

To download the latest version of the Windows Media Player control, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia



MORE INFORMATION
The Windows Media Player 7 control is much larger than the Windows Media Player 6.4 control. By design, therefore, the CODEBASE attribute is not supported because it would lead to a bad user experience for those users who are on a slow modem connection.

For additional information about how you automatically embed code to detect the version of Windows Media Player that is installed on a client computer, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

279022 Auto Embedding Windows Media Player 7 in Web Page if It Is Installed on the Client

If version 7 is not installed on a client computer, you can download the latest version of Windows Media Player from the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia

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