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Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft Corporation.

It is used for playing audio & video on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.

Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued.

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How to get TWindowsMediaPlayer to play a new track after completion of the old one?

I'm using TWindowsMediaPlayer and am running into a problem. After the current song completes, I can't get it to load a new song and then play it. procedure TMainWinForm.WMPlayer1PlayStateChange(Sender: TObject; NewState: Integer); …
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Window Media Player Background color in c#

Default background color for Windows Media Player Control is Black. Can we change this color? I found on msdn website that DisplayBackColor property is available for Windows CE but it is not available in my winforms application. Any other way to…
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Unable to call WMP's controls.play() function in VisualBasic

I have the following code: http://pastebin.com/EgjbzqA2 which is basically just a stripped down version of http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/57357-mymusic-player/. I want the program to play one file repeatedly, however, this function doesn't…
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How to use WebResponse to Download .wmv file

I'm using the following code to grab a wmv file through a WebResponse. I'm using a thread to call this function: static void GetPage(object data) { // Cast the object to a ThreadInfo ThreadInfo ti = (ThreadInfo)data; // Request the URL …
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Programmatically install Windows Media player using .net

How to programmatically install Windows Media player using .net. Windows media player is not a Product, It is Feature of Windows operating system. How to Turn On using .net program if it already off. and also Installing Higher version if necessary…
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How to align Windows Media Player control to fit parent window?

I Have a Windows Media Player ActiveX control. I want it to be aligned to its parent TPanel. The problem is that no matter what I try the WMP control is always set to its initial size without the possibility to resize it. unit…
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Windows Media Player control - get/set video position?

I am using Windows Media Player ActiveX (axWindowsMediaPlayer) component in C# WinForms application. Is it possible to get and set the current position of the video that is being played using this control?
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Playing folder full of files from Disc in Windows Media Player in Batch

I'm making a batch file to play AVI files in a folder in Windows Media Player (WMP11). They must be able to play in this player so I can not use VLC. Unfortunately it doesn't seem as simple as: start wmplayer folder\*.avi The media player website…
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How to remove the file which has opened handles?

PROBLEM HISTORY: Now I use Windows Media Player SDK 9 to play AVI files in my desktop application. It works well on Windows XP but when I try to run it on Windows 7 I caught an error - I can not remove AVI file immediately after playback. The…
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Windows Media Player Will Not Play MP4 Over HTTPS

I have a site that serves videos. These videos are served over HTTPS as MP4 files. Problem is I can not get Windows Media Player to stream it. The videos play in the
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Why does Windows Media Player sometimes fail to include the appropriate cookies in requests for content when it is being used via Internet Explorer?

We have a site hosted in IIS6 that we built using the .NET 1.1 Framework. Users who go to this site use Internet Explorer exclusively and log into it using Forms authentication. Within the site, users can navigate to a specific page that has an…
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Stream rtsp url in Windows Media Player 12

I have created a live streaming server using rtsp protocol on my machine with link of media as rtsp://192.168.xx.xx/livedata.sdp When I pass the link on another machine connected in network to VLC player streaming works fine. But when I pass the…
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Playing Windows Media Video Served By .ashx

I have embedded a windows media player in a web page, using the usual and tags. The video is served by an ashx (http handler). When I try to play the video, I usually (but not always) get an error message telling me that the file…
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Video stuck on system(1, @commands) in Perl script

I'm trying to write a Perl script that runs videos in a directory n times on Windows Media Player one after the other. For some reason, on the 64th video playing, it gets stuck on system(1, @commands). Right now, the command is system(1,…
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Get Song Currently Playing In Windows Media Player

Using C# how can I get the name of the song, artists etc that is currently playing in Windows Media Player? Applications like MSN Messenger / Google Talk do this. Thanks
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