ActiveMovie was the immediate ancestor ofWindows Media Player 6.x, and was astreaming media technology now known asDirectShow, developed byMicrosoft to replaceVideo for Windows. ActiveMovie allows users to view media streams, whether distributed via theInternet, anintranet orCD-ROMs.
Originally announced in March 1996,[1] the first version was released in May 1996 bundled with the beta version ofInternet Explorer 3.0.[2]
When ActiveMovie was installed an option was added to the Start Menu to launch theActiveMovie Control. This allowed users to play multimedia files and thus was a rudimentary media player.
In March 1997, Microsoft announced that ActiveMovie was going to become part of theDirectX set of technologies,[3] and by July it was being referred to as DirectShow.[4]
Version 5.2 ofWindows Media Player would remove theActiveMovie Control icon from the Start Menu upon installation. Microsoft provided instructions for reinstalling the icon on its website.[5]
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