A simple definition of media component for displaying a QuickTime movie will be as follows:

<p:media value="/resources/media/sample_iTunes.mov"
  width="700" height="500" />

The visual output of the player will be as follows:

By default, the media component renders the regarding HTML markup into the page according to the extension of the given file. The players and the matching extensions are listed as follows:

If the player cannot be resolved from the file type, for cases like when a YouTube video URL is provided to the component, the player attribute can be used to set the type of the player explicitly.

<p:media value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5aTFiNxzXF4"
  player="flash"/>

The visual output of the player will be as follows:

Parameters can be passed to the players according to their specification. The following is an example provided for the configuration of QuickTime player with parameters:

<p:media value="/resources/media/sample_iTunes.mov" 
  player="quicktime" width="700" height="500">
  <f:param name="autoPlay" value="false" />
  <f:param name="controller" value="true" />
  <f:param name="volume" value="20" />
</p:media>

<p:media value="#{mediaBean.media}" player="quicktime" />

public StreamedContent getMedia() throws IOException {
  InputStream stream = this.getClass()
    .getResourceAsStream("/chapter7/sample_iTunes.mov");
  return new DefaultStreamedContent(stream, "video/quicktime");
}