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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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Getting WM/Picture using C# and WM Encoder SDK

I was hoping someone could help point me in the right direction and/or provide a sample for me to look at. I need to get the WM/Picture field inside a WMA file that I decode using WM Encoder and C#. I have been able to get all the other tags fine,…
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Distorted video in Windows Media Player ActiveX

I'm trying to play MKV (Matroska format) file in Windows Media Player ActiveX control. While it plays perfectly fine in standalone WMP, the embedded control fails to render the video properly. Image appears with many little squares and no actual…
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Access the Windows Media Player library C#

I am trying to find out how to access the Windows Media Player library in c#. I have had a look around the web and SO and have found many articles on controlling WMP. I am trying to access its library information however. I.e. its track names, file…
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Error changing Windows Media Player component fullscreen property

I'm testing Windows Media player component in C#. At runtime my project receives the error : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: 'Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))' when I'm changing fullscreen…
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Binding ListView to MediaPlaybackList.Items

Having trouble understanding why MediaPlaybackList change notifications are not being sent to my ListView. Code in Page View:
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In vb.net application AxWindowsMediaPlayer does not work on client machines

I have added COM control AxWindowsMediaPlayer to form in vb.net. and just have following code Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load WMPlayerVideo.URL =…
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WindowsMediaPlayer: Cannot set maximum value

I'm trying to set a maximum value of a metro theme trackbar using an integer from WindowsMediaPlayer's current media however it keeps throwing the following error: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: Maximal…
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Windows Media Player in ASP.NET C#

First attempt at this: I created the Windows Media Player programmatically by adding the WMPLib as a reference in my project. I am trying to play a playlist using Windows Media Player in a ASP.Net web page (Visual Studio 2015). I cannot use the…
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How to display windows media player closed captions on VBA userform

I have embedded a windows media player control onto a VBA userform as an active X control. I can control the video (start, stop, pause etc.) but am unable to display closed captions / subtitles. It looks like I have to use smi / sami files, however…
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Can´t mute windows media player by process id

I am using the following code of answer 2 to mute external players like vlc or windows media player. Controlling Application's Volume: By Process-ID The VLC player is muted properly. But windows media player does not. Visually it is mutated…
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How to make Windows Media Player Control display still images correctly in a C#.NET project

I'm building a small media selector application. All medias of a given directory are loaded one by one based on left/right key navigation and displayed in Windows Media Player control that is on a windows form (C#). I works well with videos, audio,…
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Current playing item in Windows Media Player (wmplayer.exe ver. 12)

Been trying this for a while now. All solutions I've seen on the net don't seem to work, specially the really simple way to do it. WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer c = new WMPLib.WindowsMediaPlayer(); IWMPMedia i =…
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Buffering a media content, while playing the other one in Windows Media Player using C#

I am developing an application in C# that has a form with Windows Media Player embedded inside. There are several links to some online content in my app. and I want user to change the content from one to another with a button click. Since WMP spent…
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Switching from SoundPlayer to Windows Media Player Video

I have a paradigm which plays audio stimuli followed by images of the stimuli to be selected by the user. I need to replace the audio stimuli with video. Here is the original session code/implementation of the paradigm. At the end is one of my…
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Windows Media Player 12 wont play mp4, mp3, wmv files through IIS local hosted website when PC is disconnected from the Internet

I have an IIS 6.1 website on a local Windows 7 32-bit machine that serves HTML and MP4 videos through Internet Explorer all on the local machine. An internet connection is not required as this is all local storage and local hosting via IIS. IIS is…
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