Embed windows media player in taskbar

Tuesday, July 28, AM. I think he mean: "to embed media player or form with media player in desktop. The trick is - keep icons and not cover the task-bar. Tuesday, July 28, PM. In Windows 7 and Vista, you could use a Gadget. This is correct. I want the player to have the option of playing video in a window a form or under the icons on the desktop. I've seen it in several players now, and it's a real cool option I think. But I don't even know where to look or start for the info on how to do this.

Obviously this is possible, because it's being done. But I need to know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Wednesday, July 29, PM. Add the video to the HTML page there are a number of ways to do this and there you are.

No, that can't be right. If I'm not mistaken the ability to set the computer background as html was removed as of Windows Vista, and therefore is no longer possible. Thus why I said in Vista and Windows 7, you would want to look at Gadgets.

Google is your friend, use it. The value you specify for uiMode is up to you, but you will usually want to specify "none" when creating content for HTMLView presentations. When you embed the Windows Media Player control to display video in this manner, the user can control playback using the controls of the full-mode Player, so there's no need to provide additional transport controls in the webpage. You can use the space you would usually allocate for transport controls to display more text, graphics, or links to other content.

Instead, specify the digital media files in the. Because you provide the video display region in your HTMLView webpage, you can decide where to position the video and how large you want the display region to be.

You can change the dimensions of the video display by specifying values for the height and width attributes of the OBJECT element. You can also specify these values using script code. For example, if you use script code to specify a value for the URL property of the embedded control, your HTMLView webpage will be unloaded from the Now Playing feature when the digital media file plays.

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to hari's post on January 16, Pin it to the start menu and see if it will stay, then try to pin it to the taskbar again. This site in other languages x.