Embed wmv in all Chrome, IE and Firefox

Question

The code below works in IE, Firefox but not Chrome. What change is necessary to make it work in Chrome. Chrome says "No plug-in available to display this content". I got the code from: Embedding Windows Media Player for all browsers

<object id="mediaplayer" classid="clsid:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#version=5,1,52,701" standby="loading microsoft windows media player components..." type="application/x-oleobject" width="320" height="310">
<param name="filename" value="./test.wmv">
 <param name="animationatstart" value="true">
 <param name="transparentatstart" value="true">
 <param name="autostart" value="true">
 <param name="showcontrols" value="true">
 <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
 <param name="windowlessvideo" value="true">
 <embed src="./test.wmv" autostart="true" showcontrols="true" showstatusbar="1" bgcolor="white" width="320" height="310">

Answer 1

You will need to download the plugin for WMV files on the client side. That means that for anyone who visits the site with Chrome will need to have already installed the Chrome plugin locally.

HTML5 Video/Flash video may be a better way to accomplish this and make it seamless for the user. Here's an example for HTML 5 video