Play mms:// streams on my site

Question

Hi Overflowers!

I'm building a "channel chooser" for a set of mms:// streams (Microsoft Media Server): a simple web GUI that lets the user chose which channel to listen to. For reference, here is the list of streams I'd like to use. I would like users to be able to play those streams on my site with a simple "play/stop" control. Nothing fancy.

How should I attack this? Any ideas or pointers appreciated! New angles and hacks around the problem too.

Javascript or Flash players are of course preferable, but I haven't been able to find any player that plays mms:// streams. My back-end language is Django if that helps anyone get any ideas.

Answer 1

MMS will require the user to have Windows Media Player installed. I believe you can embed mms:// content directly in an HTML page using <object> and/or <embed> tags and if it's installed, the WMP browser plugin will play the content.

Here's an Embedded Media HTML Generator; enter your mms:// url here and use the generated HTML in your video player page template.