How to suspend and resume in playing a WAV file

[fAnSKyer/C# newbie]

I am using winmm.dll and I found that I can't just suspend it and
resume it?

What should I do? Any better idea?

Should I use thread? and thread.suspend will work?

Thanks

[VJ]

If you are on 2.0 Framework try the soundplayer class. I have not used it,
but I assume you might need to use thread to paly/suspend/resume, or maybe
not. Check it out.

VJ

"fAnSKyer/C# newbie" <fa******@gmail .comwrote in message
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>I am using winmm.dll and I found that I can't just suspend it and
resume it?

What should I do? Any better idea?

Should I use thread? and thread.suspend will work?

Thanks

[Peter Duniho]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:45:19 +0800, fAnSKyer/C# newbie
<fa******@gmail .comwrote:

I am using winmm.dll and I found that I can't just suspend it and
resume it?

What should I do? Any better idea?

Should I use thread? and thread.suspend will work?

It's unlikely that you can simply suspend a thread playing a sound.
First, the thread that calls the API to play the sound is unlikely to have
anything to do with the thread actually playing the sound. Second, the
thread actually playing the sound is likely to be feeding audio samples to
the audio hardware; suspending that thread will just result in the
hardware repeating the same sample over and over.

Fortunately, there is an easier way. :) Look at the AudioVideoPlayb ack
DirectX component. I am pretty sure that it includes pause/resume
functionality, unlike the basic .NET media SoundPlayer class.

Of course, that said...if you are using winmm.dll (via p/invoke
presumably), the wav/mci API has pause/resume as well, if I recall
correctly. IMHO using the AVP component is easier, since it doesn't
require p/invoke in your application, but you ought to be able to pause
and resume audio playback using the same playback mechanism you're using
now.

Pete

[VJ]

Ahh the part of hardware, thanks for the update. Yes DirectX is a better
choice.

VJ

"fAnSKyer/C# newbie" <fa******@gmail .comwrote in message
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>I am using winmm.dll and I found that I can't just suspend it and
resume it?

What should I do? Any better idea?

Should I use thread? and thread.suspend will work?

Thanks

[MBR]

It's been a while, but if you're using the MCI interface win WINMM (either
the mciSendString version or the command version) you should be able to
pause without a problem.

For example, using mciSendString, if you send:
"play c:\foo.wav alias a"
then you can follow up with:
"pause a"
and
"resume a"

Of course you can also do:
"set a timeformat milliseconds"
"play a from 0 to 23323"
etc...

Hope that helps -
thanks,
m

"fAnSKyer/C# newbie" <fa******@gmail .comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ 8g2000cwh.googl egroups.com...

>I am using winmm.dll and I found that I can't just suspend it and
resume it?

What should I do? Any better idea?

Should I use thread? and thread.suspend will work?

Thanks

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