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Can the Windows Media Player COM control play AVI files from memory (instead of from a file)?

I have a C# app, and I'm looking at using the Windows Media Player COM control to play animation and audio. So far, the only way I see of programatically controlling what the control is playing is to set its URL property to point to some file (I assume there's some way to pass in a playlist). Is there any way the WMP can render an AVI ...

MediaCollectionMediaAdded Event does not fire

I'm relatively new to C# and want basically develop an application that works with the WMP library. According to msdn, the WMPLib offers several events dealing with the WMP library such as MediaAdded, MediaDeleted, MediaChanged, etc. I wanted to implement to implement the event that is fired when a new media is added to the library as f...

How can I play DVD files using wmp.dll?

I need help with my VB6 app. I have a form with a reference to wmp.dll (Windows Media Player 9 ocx). I can play many file extensions like Mpg mpeg , avi, qt and others, but I want to play dvd files. I'm using the following code:. wmp.url = "D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.VOB" This command work in all files, but not for DVD files. I've also tr...

trying to copy a bitmap into the WMP Renderer -> upside down!

Hi All. I'm writing a video DMO decoder and trying to return a bitmap to the WMP renderer for display ... but WMP displays it upside down! This is the code : HBITMAP* hBmp = new HBITMAP(); int result; m_pScrRenderer->CreateFrame(hBmp, &result); ///This returns the HBITMAP handle. BITMAP bmStruct; memset(&bmStruct, 0, sizeof(BITM...

Windows media player crashes

My WPF app seems to be crashing when I flip a media element around quickly. Debugging with WinDbg shows it as crashing with the following stack trace: 0:028:x86> k 20 ChildEBP RetAddr 15aff648 07acb2a9 wmp!CMGSessionHost::GetPDFromTopologySourceNode0+0xb 15aff670 07a080fc wmp!CMGSessionHost::IsWindowsMediaContent+0x8a 15aff688 07acd83...

Enumerating and using wmp visualizers

Hi! I want to use the systems available windows media player visualizers in my app. Apperently visualizers expose an IWMPEffects interface to the world. My question is how do I enumerate and create instances to the available visualizers on my system? Probably it's just a process of getting the cslid of the visualizers and then create th...

ASF duration is 29 secs, WMP plays 25 secs. How come?

Hi All. I've created a custom ASF file containing compressed voice + screen streams. The total duration of the file according to the header is 29 secs. When opening it in WMP (using custom DMOs to play the streams), the file plays 25 seconds, and then the seek bar snaps to the beginning, but oddly, WMP continues to play 4 more seconds...

WMP_PLUGINTYPE_DSP_OUTOFPROC definition in wmpservices.h

Cannot download the WMP 11 SDK. It is now included in the huge Windows SDK and I am not able to download it now. I need to know the exact definition of WMP_PLUGINTYPE_DSP_OUTOFPROC in the form similar to WMP_PLUGINTYPE_DSP in the WMP 9 version of wmpservices.h which is: EXTERN_GUID( WMP_PLUGINTYPE_DSP, 0x6434baea, 0x4954, 0x498d, 0xab,...

WMP troubles with controls.previous() & controls.next()

I'm creating a Windows Media Player skin and have ran into a road block. I can load a song fine, but my code (see below) for the next and previous features are not working. I'm wondering if there is something in the windows API to handle this feature? Do I need to use directory info or something? Any comments would be helpful-- Thanks f...

How can I control an instance of Windows Media Player in c#?

I'm trying to control windows media player in c#. That means, I want to be able to programmically play songs. To reiterate, I'm talking about the full version of WMP, not the component you can embed into a windows form. I can launch the WMP process just fine, the problem comes in actually controlling it as I can't think of any keypresses...

WMPlayer embed not playing video

In my company we link our site to videos provided by a partner company. They changed their video encoding from .FLV to .MP4 videos and the current video player on our site doesn't playe them. We changed it to Windows Media Player given that most of our customers are running windows and internet explorer, the embed code we used is this on...

Problem opening mpeg2 from URL in WMP

I'm having a problem showing mpeg-2 movies to the visitors of my website (using Windows Media Player plugin). WMP thinks the movies are shorter than they really are, resulting in the movie stopping before its real end. I was able to reproduce the problem by simply opening WMP and choose "Open URL ..." from the menu. For example this mo...

Frame Callbcak for AxWindowsMediaPlayer

Hi, how can I set a callback for AxWindowsMediaPlayer in order to process videos frame-by-frame? ...

Fetching playlists from Windows Media Player throwing non-descriptive exception

I’m building a WPF application that needs to interface with Windows Media Player. Before making a call to get all my local playlists, I initialize the media player like so: Type mediaPlayerCoreType = Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(new Guid("{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}")); _mediaPlayerCore = System.Activator.CreateInstance(mediaPlayer...

Playing videos in C# application via Windows Media Player. Is there a stable, decently performing solution?

I've written a WPF application (in Visual C# 2010 Express) that has 2 windows. The 1st has a various buttons, the other displays video using the MediaElement control. When a button is pressed, a video associated with it is played or stopped if it's already playing. On my development machine (Windows 7, good graphics card, lots of me...

How to check what version of Windows Media Player is installed on the machine?

As far as I know Windows Media Player 10 is the minimum requirement for WPF MediaElement to work. What is a decent way to programmatically (from .NET) check if WMP is present, and its version? ...

The Windows Media Player doesn't play *.mov files :( Plese give me any suggestions

<html> <head> <title>so-wmp</title> <script> onload=function() { player = document.getElementById("wmp"); player.URL = "test.mp3"; }; function add(text) { document.body .appendChild(document.createElement("div")) .appendChild(document.createTextNode(text)); }; fun...

Stream video to Windows Media Player over http

Hi Trying to stream video to windows media player from a servlet (progressive download style). The streaming works, but I have some weird behavior, which I would like to rule out is not caused by a problem in my implementation. When using WMP to open an url from the servlet, WMP will perform a total of 4 http-get requests for the same ...

Problem with Chrome/FireFox - Unable to Embed windows media player in ASP.NET

Hi! I am trying to play a .wmv video in browser using asp.net 3.5. This is my code <object id="mediaplayer" type="video/x-ms-wmv" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="500" height="500"> <param name="url" value="file:///C:/winvideo-ITPro-BuildAndPublishDataCubeToSSAS2008.wmv" valuetype="ref" t...

Problem with Windows Media Player control in C#

Hi, I have a problem with control Windows Media Player.Well, when i assign to URL property an url from secured localization (Basic atuhentication) I received a box to enter your login and password. Can it be overcome so that I pass login and password from code and user does not have to. On systems earlier than Windows 7 I had it done so...