How can i get timecode for wmv file

Question

I found WindowsMediaPlayer in WMPLib but not the TimeCode!

Anyone known how to do that?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '12 at 17:12

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I believe that the answer to your question is that you will need to call IWMReaderTimecode::GetTimecodeRangeCount for each stream in your file. Then call IWMReaderTimecode::GetTimecodeRangeBounds for each range in each stream to get the startTimecode and endTimecode of each range.

answered Dec 05 '12 at 17:12

topcat3

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Thanks, can you add a sample. How do you implement this class ? – user1545810 Dec 06 '12 at 09:37
I'm afraid I'm mainly a Java programmer. Your probably better asking the question over on the msdn forums http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories . I have the idea on how to do it as above but it will take some figuring out to code – topcat3 Dec 06 '12 at 09:49

chridam · Answer 2 · 2012-12-05T17:32:20.487

Looking at these two articles Get WMA/WMV meta information in C# and Getting Current Time Code Using Windows Media Player Class in C#, you could try the following:

using WMPLib; // this file is called Interop.WMPLib.dll 

WindowsMediaPlayerClass wmp = new WindowsMediaPlayerClass(); 
IWMPMedia mediaInfo = wmp.newMedia("myfile.wmv"); 

Console.WriteLine("Duration = " + mediaInfo.duration); 

for (int i=0; i<mediaInfo.attributeCount; i++) { 
    Console.WriteLine(mediaInfo.getAttributeName(i) + " = " + 
    mediaInfo.getItemInfo(mediaInfo.getAttributeName(i)) ); 
}

or use the Controls.CurrentPositionString property to get the current time.

Console.WriteLine(wmp.controls.currentPositionString);

How can i get timecode for wmv file

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