WMV9 played from a CD

[Dez[Uk]]

I've ran into a small problem on a CD I'm making. On the CD I have some video thats encoded in WMV9/WMA9 and embedded in html using the following code.

<object id="MediaPlayer" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject" width="352" height="330">
<param name="AllowChangeDisplaySize" value="true">
<param name="AnimationatStart" value="true">
<param name="AutoRewind" value="true">
<param name="FileName" value="video/intro.wmv">
<param name="Mute" value="false">
<param name="PlayCount" value="1">
<param name="SendKeyboardEvents" value="true">
<param name="SendMouseClickEvents" value="true">
<param name="ShowAudioControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowPositionControls" value="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<param name="Volume" value="0.1">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="../plugin/mpfull.exe" src="video/intro.wmv"
width="352" height="330" showcontrols=1>
</object>

The problem comes with It's played on a PC that doesn't have any of the WMP9 codecs or a internet connection to automatically download them (which isn't preferrably anyway). As you can guess, since it doesn't have the codec to play it, it fails to play.

Is there anyway of getting the CD to detect that WMP9 isn't installed and getting it to then install it from the CD or something similar.

[Suntan]

Don't know about WMV, but if you encode to MPEG4 you could just include a copy of VLC or Media Player Classic (about 1.2MB) on the CD. With a small autorun file you could have the Video startup fullscreen when it is inserted into the drive.

-Suntan