playing a wmv or avi file?

[Desolator144]

I looked at some examples (none of which compiled properly ) and tried reading some stuff online but nothing seems to really be able to tell me how to play an avi or wmv, assuming it doesn't use some ridiculous codec that nobody has so if any of your could tell me how, that'd be great

[mpdeglau]

You can do it through the Windows Media SDK.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...layer10sdk.asp

The samples that you tried may not have worked (assuming they were Windows Media Examples) if you didn't have the proper version of the media player sdk.

[Desolator144]

well one of em, it looked like he forgot a whole module! But uhhhh how's it supposed to run on a non-programmer's computer when I'm done with it? Kinda useless if I'm the only one that can use it.

[mpdeglau]

When you register specific dlls for the media player. You need the SDK to develop them. The end user needs media player to use it.

[sparrow1]

I looked at some examples (none of which compiled properly ) and tried reading some stuff online but nothing seems to really be able to tell me how to play an avi or wmv, assuming it doesn't use some ridiculous codec that nobody has so if any of your could tell me how, that'd be great

Hi,

I found some more explanation how to play AVI files.

See this links:

http://apldn.apl2000.com/apllibrary/...2ftrackbar.htm

sparrow1

[Desolator144]

ooh wow, for once an SDK makes sense and teaches me something but I forgot to mention that the point of this was to make an exe that plays a movie without any extra files at all. Is there a way to embed a video file into the exe like a picturebox or imagelist makes the picture it holds embedded into the exe? (and would it turn it into uncompressed video like it seems to uncompresses the image?)
and um sparrow, I think that's the wrong link I know how trackbars work, lol

[sparrow1]

I really don't know but you could try it and make it embedded like we do for images and other things.

sparrow1

[gigemboy]

Well since most computers have WMP.dll (windows media player dll), you can just reference the dll in your project, and exclude it in your setup project. Code to play the video using the dll. If theres an error, simply tell them to update windows media player...