Playing video files each with a duration of 10 seconds

[drattansingh]

Hey guys, I have a problem that I'm finding it hard to locate material on. What I have to do is play some video files one afte the other and keep repeating this indefinitely or until the application is closed off. Each video file is to be played for exactly 20 seconds, so if the file is too long piece will not play and if the file is too short it must repeat for 20 seconds. Now I got the first half of the problem in that I got the video files to play in a playlist and repeat. I added a window media control and my code looks like:

// Add items to the playlist.
wmpPlayer.currentPlaylist.appendItem(wmpPlayer.newMedia (@"file.mpeg"));
wmpPlayer.currentPlaylist.appendItem(wmpPlayer.newMedia (@"pic1.jpg"));

wmpPlayer.settings.autoStart = true; // Set this option so it will start auto - not working.

wmpPlayer.settings.setMode("loop", true); // Loop indefinitely.



Does anyone knows how I could play these two files for an exact duration of time? any help will be greately appreciated.

And happy new year to everyone. I was on holidays for a while but I'm back - Jennifer

[penagate]

I guess you could start a timer with 20-second duration when you start the video, and then in its Tick event stop the video?


Edit: I just realised this thread is a week old, so ignore me if you've solved it already

[drattansingh]

I tried that already. Played the movie within a timer set to a duration of 10 seconds. However there is a little problem. The movie takes approximately 0.5 to 1 second to start playing. Thus when I play about 10 movies in succession, the average time each movie is played when the timer is set to 10 seconds is betwenn 9 to 11 seconds. Is there anyway I could get the value of this timer from window media player?

Also another problem that arised is that when I'm playing more than one movie, and the movies are switching from one to the next, there is a little pause in between approximately 1/4 to 1/2 second long. Anyone knows how to have a smooth transition between two movies played using win med player in a window application?

Jennifer

[jmcilhinney]

If you go through the loop and then back to the beginning again do you still get the delay? If not then I guess the clips must be getting cached. You could use this fact to pre-load your clips to reduce lag. There may also be some event raised by WMP when it actually starts playing the clip. If so you could Stop the Timer when you tell WMP to play the clip and then Start the Timer again when it actually starts playing. This is all conjecture of course. I have no real idea what I'm talking about.