Media Player Detection
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Hello all, I am currently using a chunck of javascript to detect if a user has media player installed and any plugins.... I was wondering if anyone has heard of a way to detec the media player version without javascript but within ASP.NET using C# or VB...? Thanks all
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Hello all, I am currently using a chunck of javascript to detect if a user has media player installed and any plugins.... I was wondering if anyone has heard of a way to detec the media player version without javascript but within ASP.NET using C# or VB...? Thanks all
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Hi there, Though the
HttpBrowserCapabilitiesobject can give you some info about the client, it's clearly enough in your case, and IMHO javascript is your choice. -
Thanks for the input, just curious as to why javascript would be a better choice... I do like to be as efficient as possible... Thanks for your reply....
Hi there, Basically, the media player is an ActiveX control which is installed and run at the client side, and the information about the client provided by the ASP.NET is not much, it is normally taken from the header of the request sent by the client browser. And this information does not contain any information about a specific ActiveX control installed on the client machine. So to detect if the player ( or an ActiveX control in general ) is installed at the client side or detect the version of the player, you basically use the client side script (runs at the client side) like javascript or vbscript to do the trick.