Detecting Media Player Using BrowserObject™ Server Component
If you own an online music store, audio streaming will be the heart of your
website. Instead of the connection speed of your hosting, you should worry
about whether all visitors able to listen your demonstration clips.
The mostly common media players for video/audio streaming include Windows Media
Player, Apple QuickTime, and RealPlayer. However, not every visitor has these
media players installed. In some case, you may provide audio for RealPlayer but
visitor is Windows Media Player installed. As a result, the visitor cannot
listen to the demonstration clip as well.
To avoid the loss of visitors, you can prepare 3 types of media file for each
demonstration clip you have. Then, media player detection from
BrowserObject.com will play a very important role to help you determine
visitor’s media player.
By using media player detection from BrowserObject Server Component, you can
detect whether visitor have Windows Media Player installed. If yes, you can
display Windows Media Player supported file. If no, you still have an
alternative way by determine whether visitor have QuickTime installed. If
visitor have QuickTime installed, display QuickTime media file, else you still
can determine for RealPlayer and display Real media file if it has been
installed. In the worst, if visitor do not have any media player installed, you
still can prompt him to download any of the media player available.