auto play a .dat file through media player

[bigbird3156]

Hi, I posted this question earlier but it seems to have disapeared so soory if I doubled up...

I am creating a HTML based information cd that has 2 videos in .dat format that I want to play...

basically using javascript (I assume this is what I would use) I want to create a simple link on a html page that will call up windows media player (externally, not in the browser) and play the particular .dat file.

any ideas?

The Bird from Down Under- Bigbird 3156
Programmer?? - I thought the option was pretender not programmer!!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

<a href="datFileName.dat">Click here</a>

Of course, each user would need to make sure that the ".dat" extension was registered to their WMP... but if you can't be sure of this, perhaps converting your ".dat" files to a more well-known format (e.g. wmv, etc) would be a better idea.

Dan



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