Thread: visual basic(studio) 2008 & windows media player

Since you're using VS 2008 and running on Vista, you could just use the WPF media playing controls.

Originally Posted by SFiorito

Since you're using VS 2008 and running on Vista, you could just use the WPF media playing controls.

i'm not familiar with WPF, but i will be googling shorty, thank you

WPF is not the way to go for this project, i've already written most of this, and i'm not going to re-do it, just to gain control over an instance of WMP.

i need a way to nativity do it via VB code, not by adding all that extra mess to get WPF to work.

You will probably want to take a look at the WMP sdk from here; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...a/default.aspx
I believe there is a sample app that covers remoting to an existing instance of WMP.

fischb22,
I have Widows media player working fine in my application and it does a good job of playing MP3 and video files. But what I woud like is to play DVD's and I have not been able to get any real info on this. On my laptop, when I double click on a drive with a DVD in it, media player will start and I get menus and everything, just like it was a standalone player or PowerDVD. So what I want to do in the car is have a single button that I press and if there is a DVD in the drive, it will start and present the stadard DVD menu. Have you had any experience with the DVD portion of media player?

BTW the laptop I use to develop the app is Vista, but the target is XP for now, but will be Windows 7 later. So far all that I have done so far on the Vista laptop works on the XP box

Thanks
Walttoinfiniti

Originally Posted by walttoinfiniti

fischb22,
But what I woud like is to play DVD's and I have not been able to get any real info on this. On my laptop, when I double click on a drive with a DVD in it, media player will start and I get menus and everything, just like it was a standalone player or PowerDVD. So what I want to do in the car is have a single button that I press and if there is a DVD in the drive, it will start and present the stadard DVD menu. Have you had any experience with the DVD portion of media player?

Play DVD in drive:

Code:

        Dim wmpDVD As String
        wmpDVD = "wmpdvd://" & Left(inpFolderName, 1)

        Dim tempIWMPMedia As WMPLib.IWMPMedia
        tempIWMPMedia = wmpControl.newMedia(wmpDVD)

        wmpControl.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tempIWMPMedia)

Clockwork,
Thanks for this code snippit. I will try it when I get back from my trip. I've been trying to play DVD's for the longest.

Walt