This article details the steps needed to create a looping collection of videos with WMS. With this feature, a viewer can “tap” into whatever video happens to be playing at any given moment. GravityLab Multimedia provides this capability for users with all video streaming accounts.

Steps to Set Up a Server-Side Play List

1. Create Windows Media content and place it in the ASFROOT folder on the Windows Media Services server.
2. Open the Windows Media Administrator.
3. From the left side of the Administrator, select Unicast Publishing Points.
4. In the Broadcast Unicast Publishing Points section, clear the use wizard option. Click Broadcast, and then choose New.
5. For alias name, type a descriptive name.
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To embed an object into an HTML document, the object class ID is required. The class ID for Windows Media Player 7, 9, 10 and 11 is clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6.

Insert the following code into your HTML document to embed Windows Media Player 7 and later:

<OBJECT id="VIDEO" width="320" height="240" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" type="application/x-oleobject"><br /> <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="your_video_url_here"><br /> <PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True"><br /> <PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True"><br /> <PARAM name="uiMode" value="none"><br /> <PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999"><br /> </OBJECT><br />