I have this Skin Programming Reference for Windows Media Player: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmp/skin-programming-reference
According to that reference BUTTON.image is the image attribute that specifies or retrieves the default image of the BUTTON, I wanna change the color or skin of a BUTTONELEMENT such as play, pause, stop, next, prev, etc., how do I set those properties through an AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer object? Is it even possible or does it need something else? I'd appreciate both C# or C++ examples.
Everything about skins is explained in the old WMP 9 SDK (Windows Media Player 9 Series Software Development Kit
There is a basic sample, RemoteSkin, which implements the IWMPRemoteMediaServices as explained at Using Skins with the Windows Media Player Control
Skins have the .wms or .wmz extension and are just zip files with all necessary files inside
You can find many examples of more advanced skins on the Web, like World Of Warcraft Skin for Windows Media Player (you can extract the files from WoW.wmz)
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I want to create a windows Forms program where I play an AVI file.
I want to be able to play it in full speed, to pause, to get the total number of frames, and to show a given frame (seek).
The AVI file has metadata for the file AND metadata per frame.
I want to do this in a windows Forms application in C#, or if it is really necessary using C++.
Internet search shows me a lot of possibilities to use: DirectX, DirectShow, Windows Media Player, Microsoft DirectX9, GNU code, and several other methods.
Alas I haven't seen one that supports all that I want, especially the metadata per frame is not used often.
It seems that several of these methods are obsolete, for instance to be able to use Microsoft DirectX I need to add "useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy".
So anyone who knows what method is the latest and greatest method to use in windows programming? Which method allows me to show metadate-per-frame?
Hello I want to use Windows Media Player (WinForms app) without any controls except timeline.
Is there any way?
I looked into AxWindowsMediaPlayer Object but i didn't seen any usefull interface for that.
I'm writing an application that is intended to embed audio or preferably video in a windows form.
Right now I am using the standard MediaPlayer class (xWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer MediaPlayer) and am finding that it may not have some of the functionality that I am hoping for.
One of the features I would like to have in this application is 'unadulterated scrubbing' of said audio or video... Which in this context I would define as 'the ability to scrub the video without stopping playback' - or otherwise, continuing to play audio or video While scrubbing...
Examples of this can be seen in programs such as Adobe Premier; in which you can scrub the position of your video on the timeline, and at whatever rate you are scrubbing, it will play back some 'garbled' audio.
The intention in this feature is to grant someone the ability to ( using a foot pedal, in one instance ) roll back in the media and know exactly where they are, based on audio feedback...
This particular feature is very specific and debatable in its ability to be achieved, but the core of the question here is this; What would be your suggestions for a 'more fully featured' media player that can be utilized in a C# windows form?
Thanks in advance.
Is there a media player, where you can control its audio and video using script or code.for example lets say i want to pause the video after n secs, which player supports this? I am looking for free opensource solution which runs on desktop i.e windows 7.
I'm not the kind of giving the entire solution. But here's a good place to start. It shows how to embed Windows Media Player in a Windows Form.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383953(v=vs.90).aspx
You'll have access to control like play, stop, etc.
VideoLan supports such use.
For instance, see here: http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html
From the link:
--extraintf allows you to select extra interface modules that will be launched in addition to the main one. This is mainly useful for special control interfaces, like HTTP, RC (Remote Control), ... (see below)
The RC interface is probably best from a pure code/script point-of-view.
The HTTP interface is oriented towards a human using a webpage, but could be controlled from code, too.
I am looking for a way to interact with a standalone full version of Windows Media Player.
Mostly I need to know the Path of the currently played track.
The iTunes SDK makes this really easy but unfortunately there really isn't any way to do it with Windows Media Player, at least not in .Net(C#) without any heavy use of pinvoke, which I am not really comfortable with.
Thanks
Just to clearify: I don't want to embedded a new instance of Windows Media Player in my app, but instead control/read the "real" full version of Windows Media Player, started seperatly by the user
Just add a reference to wmp.dll (\windows\system32\wmp.dll)
using WMPLib;
And then you can instantiate a media player
var Player = new WindowsMediaPlayer();
// Load a playlist or file and then get the title
var title = Player.controls.currentItem.name;
See Creating the Windows Media Player Control Programmatically for more information
For remoting the Windows Media Player, you can use the IWMPRemoteMediaServices interface to control the stand alone Windows Media Player. And you should be able to read all the informations you want like title or filename from your WMP player object. Unfortunately there is no C# smaple code in the SDK included. You can get the files from here: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/punidama/20080227 Look for the file WmpRemote.zip
Originally it's from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/2005/06/22/431783.aspx
Then you have to cast to the WindowsMediaPlayer object:
RemotedWindowsMediaPlayer rm = new RemotedWindowsMediaPlayer();
WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer myPlayer = this.GetOcx() as WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer;
and there you go..
I had this https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/dbd43d7e-f3a6-4087-be06-df17e76b635d/windows-media-player-remoting-in-c?forum=clr in my bookmarks but have NOT tested it in anyway. Just a pointer in the right direction. It's nothing official and will require a bit of digging, but you should get a fairly simple wrapper (which will still use PInvoke under the hood - but you won't see it) around Windows Media Player.
Hope that helps.
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about controlling the currently running Windows Media Player instance. If you are hosting Windows Media Player yourself then WMPLib is certainly the better solution.
The best info I have seen on interacting with Windows Media Player is this article written by Stephen Toub.
He lists a whole load of different ways to play dvr-ms files (doesn't really matter what format they are for this though). The bit that is possibly of interest to you is about using a Media Player ActiveX Control, which you can add to the visual Studio toolbox by right-clicking and adding the Windows Media Player ActiveX COM Control. You can then embed the player into your app, and access various properties of Media Player, like the url:
WMPplayer.URL = stringPathToFile;
This solution is possibly not what you want because it's starting a new instance of Media Player (as far as I know), however it might point you in the right direction.