How to identify a window playing a video in a browser

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I wish to understand how one can programmatically identify if a window is playing video content? I used spy++ to identify particular attributes for windows playing video but I did not find any particular attributes associated with window playing video. I have handles to all windows on screen and want to find which ones are playing video ? Could you please throw some light on how can one do this and are there any special properties associated with a window playing video?

I found similar article : can we get window handle of the window which is playing video? But I don't want to minimize application , I know user is using browser(ie,firefix,chrome) to watch video (from youtube,hulu)and window is visible on screen.

No, there is no guarantee that a video-playing window will have any special attributes. Why should it? There's no `WS_VIDEOPLAYER` style. — Cody Gray - on strike, Jan 31 '12 at 20:36
ohh.. Thanks Code Gray. Then is there any way to identify which window is playing video by any other means? — Akshay Khole, Jan 31 '12 at 21:00
[The answer to the question you linked to](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5883099/366904) already explains why this is not possible. — Cody Gray - on strike, Jan 31 '12 at 21:01
possible duplicate of [can we get window handle of the window which is playing video?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5882653/can-we-get-window-handle-of-the-window-which-is-playing-video) — Cody Gray - on strike, Feb 01 '12 at 01:50

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You can if you have execution privileges over the environment the Flash Player is executed in. You can listen for the playing event thrown by the Flash Player.

Listen for my Flash event in Javascript

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