Embedding media player with streaming TV (Capturing streaming for a preview?)

Hello,
let's say, I have a web page where there is a link for the streaming TV. Instead of just having a hyper link, I want to embed a media player to preview what is playing on my streaming TV. I was thinking about when someone uploads my page, it makes a call to my streaming server and captures some streaming data which I'll use to preview. This preview will give some idea to the user, what is playing on the streaming TV. Do I have to incorporate some kind of middleware or some other technology??? any suggestion will be welcomed!!!

If you have a consistent media stream URL, you can embed the media player onto your page. For Windows Media, Real Video/Audio, QuickTime, Flash video streams usually you don't have to use any kind of "middleware".
Just learn about embedding media players. It is HTML basics and it is very easy.

Thanks for replying Stream Recorder...
I guess I wasn't too specific on my question or I should have highlighted "preview" part. Here is my question againd: Insteading of just playing the streaming directly into the media player, I just want to grab a few packet of streaming data from the live stream and just play those packet as a "preview" (in a loop) on the embedded player to notify the users about the content of the streaming media. That's why I was wondering whether there exist any middleware/framework.
Thanks

I don't think there is some kind of middleware. You may find open source code for some Windows Media stream recorders, but I don't think it will be easy to create your own middleware with it.

IMHO the best option here is to show some part of a stream. See the following FAQ to learn how to do it with Windows Media and Real Video streams:
FAQ: Start and end times of a streaming media