visual basic(studio) 2008 & windows media player

fischb22 · 02-12-2009, 04:51 PM

i've been searching now for a while, and not able to find a solution

i want to control windows media player from VB with out having an instance of it attached to a form, is this possible?

Visual Studio 2008, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Vista

SFiorito · 02-12-2009, 08:38 PM

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

fischb22 · 02-12-2009, 08:43 PM

Quote: 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

fischb22 · 02-12-2009, 09:04 PM

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.

swift_gti · 02-16-2009, 09:51 AM

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.

walttoinfiniti · 10-19-2009, 05:00 PM

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

ClockWorK · 11-07-2009, 06:36 PM

Quote: 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)

walttoinfiniti · 11-11-2009, 09:24 PM

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

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