Webbroser:Wait until flv finishes

[FriendOfGhost]

my friends,

I want to open a youtube page in my vbnet application (using webbrowser control) and wait until streaming video finishes playing.

any ideas howto do it ?

[danasegarane]

WebBrowser.documentCompleted

[J-Deezy]

WebBrowser.documentCompleted

Won't work as the flv is independent of the actual webpage loading (try it and you'll see) So it will say that the document has completed without actually having fully streamed the video.

[danasegarane]

I have previously used this event for web page. Currently I cannot test this as I cannot acccess youtube. but I will suggest to give a try and also look at the WebBrowser:FileDownload Event

[FriendOfGhost]

nope, WebBrowser:FileDownload event only fires when download starts. good approach but unfortunately there'sno "download completed" indicator, thats is that needid if I use WebBrowser:FileDownload event.

insteresting but google didnt show up any solutions.

[FriendOfGhost]

WebBrowser.documentCompleted

that was the first thing I tried my friend. but page complete does not mean streaming video has loaded and shown completely. documentCompleted event fires far before video finishes.

[danasegarane]

May be you have to handle the WebBrowser1_ProgressChanged event with
'e.MaximumProgress
'e.CurrentProgress

 Private Sub WebBrowser1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.ProgressChanged
        'e.MaximumProgress 
        'e.CurrentProgress
    End Sub

[FriendOfGhost]

May be you have to handle the WebBrowser1_ProgressChanged event with
'e.MaximumProgress
'e.CurrentProgress

 Private Sub WebBrowser1_ProgressChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.ProgressChanged
        'e.MaximumProgress 
        'e.CurrentProgress
    End Sub

sorry, no luck. these progress values are for only document itself, like html codes, etc... streaming video doesnot effect the document size.

[danasegarane]

Does the WebBrowser:FileDownload fires every time , did you check the WebBrowser.isBusy Property while downloading the file ?

[FriendOfGhost]

yes my friend, I checked. flash video looks like "another person doing something" on the page. looks like page does not check what it does. while downloading the video AND playing it, browser is not Busy.

[danasegarane]

I ran out of ideas. Hope some one help

[FriendOfGhost]

thank you my friend.