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At one point or another, we all come in contact with a project where we need (or want) to play media files. There are 2 main ways you can go about this, you can either use the MS MediaPlayer control and deal with interop and alot of issues.
Or you can implement mci using the API.
This project is an implementation of the mciSendString API, so you can just include the class into your project and use it on your form, no need to reference Media Player.
This plays all know formats (mp3, mpeg, avi, wmv, divx,...) except midi files and cda (audio cd's).
(the play statement, and maybe other statements as well, use arguments not supported by the midi and cda devices)
The code is well documented and very clear, even a beginner will find it's way in it.
Please leave a comment, and do vote if you like it. Thanks !!
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 10/6/2005 6:22:20 PM: Thorben Linneweber
or you can use directX
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10/6/2005 7:04:17 PM: SpaceMonkey
I never worked with directX (yet) but I imagen it being more work (and harder) to implement than this.
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10/7/2005 8:11:00 AM: VBHelp
Nice running example, works fine. I havent been using .net long enough to know if there's a better way of doing this or not but wanted stay it does work great.
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10/7/2005 10:26:42 AM: K-Code
i gonna give you five for this it's really great so i can use my own UI instead MMP UI,and do you know how to get the frames from a movie so i can put it as wallpaper for example?please if you know email me at ncstrike@hotmail.com
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10/8/2005 1:45:53 PM: anthony
Very nice i give it a 5.
Would like to take this and make it show two videos that play along the same timeline, for instance. a regular video with a small video (no sound) of a person translating 1st video in sign language.
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11/15/2005 4:52:27 AM: Olivier
Hello, nice code but... some movie plays too fast... do you know why ?
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11/15/2005 1:47:35 PM: SpaceMonkey
Olivier, are you sure you didn't change the speed trackbar ? Also try playing them with MS Mediaplayer to check if it isn't a problem with the file itself.
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11/18/2005 4:21:02 AM: Olivier
Hello Spacemonkey,
the speed trackbar... lol :)
No in fact my script launch the open command with mpeg in place of avi...
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11/25/2005 9:52:11 AM: Pertuman
Excellent class, but I need to play one list of video. Want i do this?
Thank.
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11/25/2005 1:18:53 PM: SpaceMonkey
Pertuman, use the OnEnd event to know when playing ends, then close the current file, open the next one in the list, and start playing that one. Make sure you don't have Repeat on. (To repeat start playing the first file in the list in the OnEnd event of the last file)
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11/25/2005 5:27:30 PM: Pertuman
Thank SpaceMonkey, the class is great.
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11/28/2005 1:34:03 PM: Andicioz
This is really an excellent code man. Keep up the good work!
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12/30/2005 1:35:04 AM: Santosh
Very Good
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3/4/2006 1:20:49 AM: Hermit
can u please explain me the coding of your project i am using it for my project work . so can u please explain me in details . mail me on my ID hermit85a@gmail.com
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3/4/2006 7:14:46 AM: SpaceMonkey
Hermit, explain you what ?
Just look at the source code...
It is very well structured and has sufficient comments...
If there are any functions in the code that you don't know look them up on www.msdn.com or just google for them.
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3/18/2006 1:22:29 PM: Joni
Excellent job I would rate. I refered some of the codes into my current project. But i'm having some problems with Karaoke MPEG1 file. I couldn't switch the channel (vocal or music). I wonder if I can do it like the default Microsoft MPEG1 Properties which can change the channel to FIRST, SECOND, or BOTH. I've tried "setaudio movie1 source to left", but it only works with certain hardware. In my case, My AC97 works but not my Intel SOUNDMAX. I hope I could get some enlightement here. Thanks.
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3/22/2006 11:43:31 AM: Joni
Hi,
I've found the answer for switching the channel. It's exactly "setaudio @alias source to {left, right, average, stereo}" The problem which I got last time was caused by Sonic MyDvd Ligos Mpeg Splitter and Ligos Mpeg Audio. I found Ligos Mpeg Audio is the culprit when I use DirectX utils => GraphEdit to view the filters. The Ligos Mpeg Audio cannot switch the channel as what default microsoft Mpeg filter do. After I unregister the filter: regsvr32 -u the filter name, everything is back to normal and my player is completed.
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4/7/2006 2:24:01 PM: SpaceMonkey
If you have questions, post them as comment here, don't use the feeback link, I don't reply on mail, but I do monitor comments...
Bati, in case you come back here...
Does the project, as posted here, play unexpected, in full screen, on your second monitor as well ? If not, then it must be some of your modifications...
I can't reproduce your problem on my dual monitor system.
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4/17/2006 3:13:31 AM: Ravi Ranjan Sharma
Fentastic coding
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7/23/2006 1:55:47 PM: AbhinavChadda
hey...excellent piece of code... one issue though... when i used it in my project it is not showing in the panel it is supposed to show but on the windows explorer window (which is open in the background) on the same location... ne idea as to y is this happeneing...
P.S: it works if i try to use it on a blank form but doesnt on the current project...
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8/10/2006 2:06:29 PM: YµR0kewL
Great work - HOWDY !
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10/14/2006 1:03:04 PM: mehrtash
i want to load a mpeg file in ram
(binary array) and then play it
what should i do ?
who can help me?
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11/20/2006 5:10:45 AM: Sriram Prasad
Very nice code.
working perfectly..
I would like to is it possible to create playlist from this code...
Please post here...
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11/20/2006 5:21:39 AM: SpaceMonkey
Yes you can add a playlist feature, look at my comment from "11/25/2005 1:18:53 PM" it explains how to use the OnEnd event for this...
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12/19/2006 6:50:02 AM: Sriram Prasad
Very nice piece of work. great. but when i tried this sample application in windows 2000, it not working and reporting a error MCIERR_INTERNAL. What could be reason for this. can be explain me the way sort out this problem
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12/19/2006 4:52:47 PM: SpaceMonkey
Sriram Prasad, this code was originally written on a W2K system... dunno what the reason for your problem might be... can be any number of things related to hardware, drivers, software or the operating system...
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4/18/2007 12:46:27 PM: Wasim Bashir
Thanks for your great work, the program is excellant. If I wanted to have the play button so that when the user clicks the button an embedded video will play automatically, what is the coding for that?. This is so that I can take out the Open button just to restrict the user to one video.
I thought it would be something like MyApiVideo.Play = ("wave.wav").
Thanks in advanced.
Regards
Wasim Bashir
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4/18/2007 5:49:16 PM: SpaceMonkey
Wasim,
I think you would need to embed the file as a resource, and then maybe extract it to the users temp folder just before playing...
Don't think you can play it from a resource directly...
.NET has classes to work with resources, I'm sure you can find tons of examples on how to embed a file at design time and then extract it at runtime...
If you only want to play a wav file, check out the PlaySound api, that might be better in your case... less overhead and might even play the file from the resource directly, never tried that with .NET...
If you get the PlaySound api working to play from the resource directly, make it a pscode article if it isn't already one :o) (feel free to post a link to that in this thread, might be useful to others as well)
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4/19/2007 4:40:44 PM: Wasim Bashir
R4egarding the embedded video, under the play button add
MyApiVideo.Open = ("wave.wav").
MyApiVideo.play
And make sure the video file is located in the "bin" folder.
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6/1/2007 6:51:36 PM: addythemaddy
hey buddy..thats great work...just keep up the good work
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10/2/2007 7:54:16 AM: Luke Vear
Hello SpaceMonkey,
I was taking a look at your 'ApiVideo' application and was wondering if I could modify it around abit (like add a more interesting look to it as well as adding support for Windows Aero). If I am permitted too could you please reply to me. If not please email me saying so anyway.
Thanks in advance!
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10/3/2007 1:19:00 PM: SpaceMonkey
Luke,
Feel free to use this code in any way you feel fit... I posted it here to help others save some time.
Good luck with your project.
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2/19/2008 2:32:36 PM: Ricky
Hi, I feel I should comment.
This has taught me a lot and it's very well coded, so thank you very much :)
There is only one slight glitch I have found. Some songs, the total time reads wrong. For instance, I have a song, 3:21 seconds, the total time displays 7:34 or something similiar. The trackbar value is wrong because of this, though the song does cut off at the right place? Only on a few songs, and it's nothing to do with the speed and I have checked in other players to make sure the files are fine (which the are). Still, I've been changing/adding bits for a while now, thankyou for posting. :)
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2/19/2008 4:24:52 PM: SpaceMonkey
Thanks Ricky for your feedback, I appreciate it.
I been using a player based on this code (it's a dual monitor thing where the movie is played on my TV and I control the thing using an old serial [RS232] mouse :o) for a while now, and it does indeed not play all media as flawlessly as Microsoft Media Player, but it serves my needs. Feel free to build on it and where needed improve it and maybe even post your version here on pscode...
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2/23/2008 2:10:25 PM: guideX
Well done!
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2/24/2008 10:54:23 AM: Ricky
Hi again,
I have it nearly working flawlessly now. It displays the total time correctly and will always play the song right to the end without any problems with the scroll bar. However, when playing a song then using the scroll bar to jump through the song the format is changed, so the bar finishes yet the song continues (if you understand me). So, I see there is a "TimeFormat" that I'll be needing to play with :)
I may post the version up once I'm done, I have added a few things, such as a 'random' feature, allowing it to sit in the taskbar, saving tracklists and loading tracklists etc. :)
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5/28/2008 7:15:49 PM: Timo Böhme
Hi SpaceMonkey. You will get 5* from me. I have a big question about the result image. I will save some frames of the video as Bitmap and play the video in a second Picturebox. How to get access to the single frame?
wg__@hotmail.com
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6/16/2008 5:51:19 PM: Andre
This is fantastic! Excellent work.
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9/1/2008 10:47:51 AM: Clay
Will this play MP3 audio files with no UI displayed?
Is this code dependent on any other components/libraries being installed?
If not, does it use an MP3 decoder? If so, would I need to install that MP3 decoder?
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10/30/2008 6:06:31 AM: rio711phil
This coding is really cool but it plays fast on my other .avi files and no sound at all, maybe theres a conflict on a codec or something! what do you think...? if I figured this out I'll let you know guys...
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6/16/2009 10:57:08 AM: Nader Naderi
Hello,
Your code is nice. Thank you for sharing this with us, How about 2 instance in a form? I tested this, but it didn't work. At the same time, only one player works. What is the problem? in my code i need two players.
Regards,
Nader
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6/18/2009 10:34:49 AM: SpaceMonkey
Hi Nader,
I tried it on my system and it works... both using a different parent on the same form or playing two clips on the same parent. Playing them directly on the form seems no problem either.
Have you set the size and location correctly. And are they in a different location?
Is the code controlling the players correct?
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10/6/2009 10:52:14 AM: ali noroozi
ir your program is not here please connect with my emile address and and I need your corporation Now ,Thanks
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10/8/2009 9:19:32 AM: SpaceMonkey
Hi Ali,
Thanks for your interest in this project. I'm happy it still draws people in after all this time.
I have tried the zip and the dowload works, just click "download code".
Don't click on the buttons in the screenshot, this is not a webapplication :o)
Regards
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6/3/2010 12:53:54 PM: Mark Kintigh
Excellent code -- 5 * from me.
Got a question though, can you control the size of the buffer for the video? I'm having buffer issues running an AVI from a DVD -- it goes along playing OK then, after accessing the DVD again, jumps up in the video however long it took to read the file.
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4/24/2011 11:45:27 AM: jefferson
this is cool. i did somethine like this in VB6
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6/12/2011 7:28:44 AM: Navdeep Singh
excellent code, How can i play hd avi videos? can u help.
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