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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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WMPLib: player.mediaCollection.getAll().count is always 0

I am attempting to write code that reads each item from the user's Windows Media Player library. This code works for the majority of users, but for some users, getAll() will return an empty list when they clearly have hundreds or thousands of items…
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Windows Media Player video is black if control is created programmatically

I'm trying to programmatically create the Windows Media Player control so I can trap any initialization errors. Before when I simply dropped the control on my form, everything played fine. But now that I'm trying to play things programmatically, the…
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Windows Media Player Ignoring Me

I'm the guy who was here a while back asking about controlling Windows Media Player via Java. I've made progress, but I've hit a vexing problem, so I'm back looking for help. I followed the advice I got last time 'round and installed Jacob. I…
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Is there a documented JavaScript API for Windows Media Player?

I want to use JavaScript to control an embedded Windows Media Player, as well as access any properties that the player exposes. I've found a few hacky examples online, but nothing concrete. I really need access to play, pause, stop, seek,…
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How to add multiple files to a playlist

I have one OpenFileDialog control that has Multiselect = true. Now I want to add each file to windows media player playlist but I have no idea how to do that and there is no good example on the internet. if (ofdSong.ShowDialog() ==…
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What Types of Video Can MediaElement Play?

I'm looking for detailed information on what decides the formats of media that MediaElement can play, I can't seem to find any definitive source. I've read somewhere that if it can be played in WMP then MediaElement can play it. Is this true? If it…
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Delphi: EMCIDeviceError when starting MCI

I use the TMediaPlayer component for playing music. It works fine with most of my tracks. But it doesn't work with some tracks. When I want to play them, the following error message is shown: Which is German but roughly means that: In the project…
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How to control the system volume using javascript

I am using media player to play audio and video. I am creating own button to increase and decrease the volume of the media player. working fine too. Problem: Even after reaches 0% volume its audible. If the player volume increase the system volume…
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How do I create transparent labels over a Video control

I'm pretty much out of ideas here... for everything else, setting the background color to Color.Transparent or setting the TransparencyKey works fine... I have an mp4 Video which I need to play as a "background" of my form. To do this, I'm currently…
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How can I turn off "convert and copy" dialog for Windows Portable Devices?

Under Windows 7, when I copy an mp3 file to my iRiver H10 I always get a dialog box offering to "convert and copy" the file, or "No, just copy". The mp3 files are not copy protected. The H10 is an mp3 & wma player connected via USB, but does not…
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Play next file automatically using MediaPlayer Control(AxWindowsMediaPlayer)

When changing AxWindowsMediaPlayer URL in PlayStateChange Event, it doesn't start playing automatically, just changes to "Ready" state. I have an "AxWindowsMediaPlayer" Control in my C# WinForms program. when I normally change the URL property of…
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ErrorThe type or namespace name 'AxWMPLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

What is the possible reference for the handler AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_PlayStateChangeEventHandler ? When I pass this event in the method, private void axWindowsMediaPlayer1_PlayStateChange(object sender,AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_PlayStateChangeEvent…
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Repeat single song in a playlist

I have a PlayList loaded into my WMP instance, and I want it to loop just one song. Everything I've Googled up so far tells me to do this: private AxWindowsMediaPlayer wmp; wmp.settings.setMode("loop", true); However, this only seems to make the…
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can windows media player show milliseconds

As i was looking to split a tutorial video file(.wmv) with this amazing tool called Asfbin, looked every settings in media player but in vain couldn't find one... Is there a way to set windows media player to display the time with milliseconds along…
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Getting the current playing song from windows media player with Python

For a program I'm writing, I need to get the current playing song from windows media player. I've googled around a lot, but everything I found was about playing music VIA windows media player and getting information from that. What I specifically…
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