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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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Embed Windows Media Player in a PyGTK application

Is there any way to display videos in a PyGTK application using Windows Media Player? I'm trying to play SopCast streams in a PyGTK application and currently I'm doing that by embedding Internet Explorer and showing an webpage containing a Windows…
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Controlling embedded windows media player with javascript

I have embeded a few videos which I need to display if a link is clicked. so what I am trying to do is click a link and it will display a video, which the user can press play on. If they click another link, the previous video stops and a new video…
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How can I know when a Windows Media Player control in visual c# has finished of playing a song?

I just need to know when the media player finishes of playing a song, if there is a flag or something...
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AccessViolation exception when form with AxWindowsMediaPlayer closed

I have a AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer on a form. When I close the form, I get "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." exception. It is OK with hiding the form but not with closing.…
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Is there a way to get the name of the track Windows Media Player is currently playing?

I'd like to query Windows Media player from an external app to find out what track (album and artist) it's currently playing. Is that information exposed anywhere?
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best way to build graph for MPEG2 transport stream

on windows 7 the windows media player supports .ts files very well, in the sense that windows media player knows how to handle such files without any additional codec packs. however if I try to use graphedit to "render" a .ts file, it complains it…
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Windows Phone 7 and MP4

I installed all the needed tools and I wrote a simple YouTube downloader for WP7. The problem is with playing.. I tried several mp4 formats (listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs) with that code: new…
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How can I make a Windows Media Player control transparent?

In a C# Winforms application with a transparent form, how can I have a Windows Media Player control with a specific opacity or transparency setting so that it 'blends' into the background. I have set the uiMode to none, yet am not sure on how to…
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How to turn off Video Acceleration programmatically

I'm using the Windows Media Player OCX in a program runned on hundreds of computers (dedicated). I have found out that when video acceleration is turned on to "full", on some computers it will cause the video to fail to play correct, with green…
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Lib to play audio media in .NET?

I tried fmod.net but got a 'System.BadImageFormatException' error. I then tried WindowsMediaPlayer and have sounds playing. However i am having issues playing a sound when the current one ends (callback code below. It doesnt seem to like me playing…
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WCF Streaming Service/Multiple GET requests from Media Player

I've run into a problem with a WCF streaming service. That problem is due to Windows Media Player submitting multiple GET statements when you tell it to load the URL. Simply put, the multiple GET statements cause the entire stream to be requested…
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How to read tags out of m4a files in .NET?

I've got some heavily modified code that ultimately came from the Windows Media SDK that works great for reading tags out of MP3 and WMV files. Somewhere along the line, Windows Media Player added support for .m4a files (was it in Windows 7?) but…
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Playback Complete In Windows Media Player

I launched a subprocess to using its call method to play a video on Window Media Player. eg. subprocess.call('"C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Media Player/wmplayer.exe" "C:/Users/Public/Videos/Sample Videos/Wildlife.wmv"') Now, how can I check…
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basic playback with programmatically created windows media player

I was trying to "just quickly integrate" the Windows Media Player via COM to play single files from the local file system or http sources - but due to the sparse documentation and online resources to its usage when not embedding into some kind of an…
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How to play .mid Sound in resources using windows media player in c#

I want to play a mid sound which embedded in my resources file , its in byte , I searched a lot I found most answers like this ,I changed it to my resouces like this Stream stream =…
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