Customizing the User Interface

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You can control the way the Windows Media Player control looks when it is embedded in a Web page. You can make it look just like the Windows Media Player application, complete with standard control buttons, a trackbar, and text display for the media file information. You can enable just the video display panel and control buttons of Windows Media Player, so that the video playback takes up the least amount of space on a page. For audio-only playback, you can even disable all display of the Windows Media Player control, and create your own control buttons and text displays in HTML.

The display element of the Windows Media Player control is determined by a number of properties that are set when the control is created on the Web page. This article is a guide to how the values of those properties affect the way the Windows Media Player control is displayed.

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