Make sure your mark-up works with a file before trying it with your script. I had no problems getting a script to work with this mark-up: 
<object id="MediaPlayer" width=320 height=286
  classid="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" 
  standby="Loading
  Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject"
  codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/n
+smp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112">

<param name="filename" value="/cgi-bin/playwmv">
<param name="Showcontrols" value="True">
<param name="autoStart" value="True">

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
src="/cgi-bin/playwmv" name="MediaPlayer" width=320 height=240>
</embed>
</object>

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In reply to Re: OT: Displaying Windows Media file from database? by Thelonius
in thread OT: Displaying Windows Media file from database? by TedPride

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