title: Embedding Windows Media Player for all browsers
body: <p><strong>Edit:</strong> This question was written in 2008, which was like 3 internet ages ago. If this question is still relevant to your environment, please accept my condolences. Everyone else should convert into a format <a href="https://videojs.com/html5-video-support/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">supported by your browsers</a> (That would be H.264 if Internet Explorer is needed, and probably AV1, VP8/VP9 if not) and use the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element</a>.</p>
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  <p>We are using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WMV</a> videos on an internal site, and we are embedding them into web sites. This works quite well on Internet Explorer, but not on Firefox. I've found ways to make it work in Firefox, but then it stops working in Internet Explorer.</p>
  <p>We do not want to use Silverlight just yet, especially since we cannot be sure that all clients will be running Windows XP with Windows Media Player installed.</p>
  <p>Is there some sort of Universal Code that embeds WMP into both Internet Explorer and Firefox, or do we need to implement some user-agent-detection and deliver different HTML for different browsers?</p>