>Hey Rick,
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> Thanks for the response. I am wondering if there is a way to do what you are talking about with AVI files? I am using Adobe Premier as the video editor which is not capable of exporting movies to WMV files.
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>Any thoughts?

The newest versions probably do. If not I'm sure there's some sort of plug-in that you can find.

Failing that Microsoft has a WMA toolkit that lets you convert raw AVI streams to WMV. I haven't done this in a long while, because most video tools support it natively these days.

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>Jim
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>>The easiest way to do this is to not deal with embedded controls, but rather generate a WMV file, which is streamable automatically from a plain download link.
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>>WMV is Microsoft's streaming format and most video tools support this output format including CamTasia's screen capture utility.
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>>Hosting the ActiveX controls can be problematic with restricted security settings.
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>>Remember though that WMV is a Microsoft specific protocol. I don't think it's supported on any other platforms.
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>>>All,
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>>> I want to create a webpage that allows the user to click on a Windows Media Player activex control and stream a video from a server to the client. I need to know exactly what is involved with doing this. I have two versions of the media player. When I look at the property sheet of the first one it has an option for streaming, but no filename option. The second one has a URL Property, but no option to stream the video. If I go to the webpage and click the play button on the media player control it just sits there and seems like it downloads the video. The video is 800 MB that's why I want to stream it.
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>>>Please lead me in the right direction as to what I need to do.