How to check for media player and real player are installed ?

I am trying to get windows Media Player working with C# I have not been able to get it to display anything. I have read most of the links on the web and tried different .dll's and they just do not display any Video. I can get sound but no video. Can any one tell me what is going on. I am using and Master Page and Content page.

Thanks

Londonbaba

hi,

i am developing web portal, which suppose to upload video in sql2005 and should be able to retrieve that video on request

and play in aspx page with windows media player.

thanx.. 

Hi, 

I have tried to find a solution on the forum, but no one of the posts helped me...

I'm trying to implement a media player on my web page using Visual Studio 2010 and it's 'toolkit'.

In the toolbox i right click on general->Choose Item->Com Components and select Windows Media player.

But nothing is happening.

If I right click on the general tab and press 'Show All' both the windows media player accor but the icon are like 'invisible' and you can't drag it into the design window. 

A second question, if I want to use a different media player, how does I do that? I.e. VLC...

Thanks 

Hello,

I have a question reguarding an mp3 player I am building. I need to build an mp3 player that can do the following:

1. Pull a song into a player and play it to the currently logged in user only once.

2. Allow the user to rate the song only once, and log the geo location of the user rating the song.

3. Log how many times the song has been rated

4. Automatically disable viewing of the song to users in a specific role after 100 ratings, and enable viewing to users in a different specific role.

I'm wondering what would be the best way to approach this project, and weather or not to create it in jquery or flash or ajax.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance! :)

Hi,

How can i play multiple media files(*.flv,*.wma,*.dat..etc) in moss2007 OOTB i have many videos in my document library on click of any video it should play in the media webpart.

please suggest me an approach ASAP.

Regards,

Aneel

Hi,

Not sure if WPF is the best place to post this but anyhow...

My app uses the Windows Media Player control to display video in fullscreen. It's vital that it remain fullscreen until the user has specifically exited it (using the escape key). However, WMP control exits full screen seemingly on any notification coming up on Windows 7. Windows update notices, anti-virus update alerts, etc.

Is there anyway to force WMP control to stay fullscreen, or force suppression of ALL notification messages?

Title says it all, it pauses my player, but when i press play again theres no sound, it is playing but without sound, yeah the volume is up.

 void wmp_PlayStateChange(object sender, AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_PlayStateChangeEvent e)
 {
  if (!Properties.Settings.Default.AutoStartPlaying)
  {
  if (wmp.playState == WMPLib.WMPPlayState.wmppsPlaying && eerstekeer)
  {
   wmp.Ctlcontrols.pause();
   eerstekeer = false;
  }
  }
 }

In VS under Add references COM Tab there is an ocx & dll form of windows media player control... why two... which one is better to use? Reason...?!

On creating media player control in my winforms whose main() function is marked as mtathread... i get below error ActiveX control '6bf52a52-394a-11d3-b153-00c04f79faa6' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment. But I dont want to change my threading model as some other activex controls are involved...

First of all why it did crash... this article from Jeff Prosise says "if an MTA thread creates a ThreadingModel=None or ThreadingModel=Apartment object, calls from that thread will be marshaled from the MTA to the object's STA." http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/com-tech/activex/apts/article.php/c5529 Why marshaling didnt happen and instead app crashes when the thread creating com object is .NET thread?

I am just creating the media player control not even operating with multiple threads...

I am creating media player control from .net winforms whose main is marked as [MTAThread]... thats all I see a crash... why instantiation is crashes... (atleast I should be able to create and later if control crashes because of operating play(), pause() from multiple threads it makes sense)