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Hello

I need an help.
I'm using MCI api to manage a video player. I know how to open a video ,
play it, stop it etc... and I know how to direct video on a pictureBox, but
I'm not able get the video size so to adapt my pictureBox to the video size.
I hope someone could help me bye telling me the mciSendString 's command to
use for this purpose (and how to use it).

thanks to everyone
Nov 15 '05 #1
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