how to playing mpeg indepndently

[mrdj1002]

hi guys
I'm developing an app in which i need to play movie somewhere in it(rather mpeg). well i wanted to use MCI first but there's one problem:
MCI works diffrent on each computer depending on what mpeg deriver was installed on the system with its bugs and stuff... so the app might work properly on my system but on the users... god knows.
so i decided to make my app independent of my users' system. to do this i guess i should use some Actiex or dll with a function of playing mpeg in it or some api calls but i don no how and i don't have these dlls and stuff.
can u please help me with these
thanks alot

[plenderj]

Uee the windows media player component

[mrdj1002]

yeah i know but in this case the player's bottons and stuff r visible to my user and i don't want that

[plenderj]

Nah u can hide stuff or make it fullscreen and all that

[mrdj1002]

Originally posted by plenderj
Nah u can hide stuff or make it fullscreen and all that

that's ok but still some other problems:
1.I can't get the number of frames in an mepg file.
2.I can't find out what frame i'm dispaling or jump to a certain frame that i need to do it.
3. i guess it works for short clips but not for long time movies. i remember examing this in an app or ocx. but now i don't have a long time mpeg to examin it.
BTW do u know where can i find help files for this control or other controls that sometimes i wanna use them?

[plenderj]

Well you can try searching on www.planetsourcecode.com under the Visual Basic part. You'd be surprised the stuff that turns up there ...