Changing the look of a media player

I got this web site media player on the web some time ago.
When viewed on my web page it shows a media player with a Play button.

Can someone help me simply change the look of it so that a web visitor simply presses a Play icon button instead of seeing the media player?
Or just some text that says "Play"?
(I'd prefer a "Play" icon image).
Or tell me what it takes to change the look of the player?
Thanks.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<object id="MediaPlayer1" width=150 height=50
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" align="middle">
<param name="FileName" value="http://www.domain.com">
<param name="AutoStart" value="0">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="False">
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="mainFrame">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
src="www.domain.com/" align="middle"
width=176
height=144
defaultframe="rightFrame"
showstatusbar=true>
</embed>
</object>
<!-- END GENERIC ALL BROWSER FRIENDLY HTML FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER -->
<br>
<a href="http://url or path to your media"><font size="2">Click
here for standalone player</font></a><br>

Code (markup):

 

did you have any luck with this yet? I am looking for a solution too