Is there a good wrapper for using Media Player in IE

Question

I need to add media playback ability to a web application. It has to play audio and video, and the player has to be MS Media Player (shouldn't use any plugin non existent on a standard windows machine). I know I can add it directly as an ActiveX to IE, and control it with JavaScript. I wonder if there is some popular and good wrapper that will save me some of the work.

UPADTE: Having a way to easily embed the player on the page is cool. But I would like the interaction with the player to be managed too. Things I would like it to support:

• Play
• Pause
• Stop
• Load different media clip
• Change volume
• resize

Also I would like to be able to replace the default controls (visible in the Windows Media Player) with my own skinned controls.

Answer 1

Hey, this one should help:

http://malsup.com/jquery/media/

Answer 2

Flowplayer is also a good one: http://flowplayer.org/