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Play video in Sharepoint 2010 - tips

The media player webpart can be used to play videos in Sharepoint 2010.
It is a silver light webpart and silver light has to be installed in the client machines to view the video's.

To get teh webpart in webpart gallery, Publishing feature has to be activated in site collection and site level.

Steps on how to install the webpart can be found in
This webpart is part of sharepoint enterprise edition.
Video webpart can be played in content editor webpart also.
In CEWP, enter the below code
<object classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" width="600" height="400" id="mediaplayer1" title="Win Media Player">
  <param name="FileName" value="http://filelocation">
  <param name="AutoStart" value="True">
  <param name="ShowControls" value="True">
  <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="False">
  <param name="ShowDisplay" value="False">
  <param name="AutoRewind" value="True">
  <param name="DisplayBackColor" value="True" />
  <param name="BufferingTime" value="6">
  <embed src="http://filelocation" width="600" height="400" autostart="True" type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/" filename="http://filelocation" showcontrols="True" showstatusbar="False" showdisplay="False" autorewind="True" displaybackcolor="True" bufferingtime="6"></embed>
    </object>

It is better to have the video file in .wmv format for it to play in CEWP.

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  1. Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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