Viewing AVI, MPG Jpg, etc in a VB.NET (2.0) application

RB0135

Hi all..

Just want to know the best way to view AVI's, JPG's, MPG's and similar
files in one control in a VB.NET application? The application will be
an advertising display tool.

Is there a simple control that can accomplish this (Free or
commercial), or are there controls/possibiliites already built into
the Framework (V2)?

Thanks for any responses...

Robert

Feb 16 '07 #1

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Ryan S. Thiele

The easiest way to accomplish this is the Windows Media Player. You can
download the WMP SDK from Microsoft.

"RB0135" <ro****@joshie.com.auwrote in message
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Hi all..

Just want to know the best way to view AVI's, JPG's, MPG's and similar
files in one control in a VB.NET application? The application will be
an advertising display tool.

Is there a simple control that can accomplish this (Free or
commercial), or are there controls/possibiliites already built into
the Framework (V2)?

Thanks for any responses...

Robert

Feb 16 '07 #2

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Ryan S. Thiele" <ad***********@carriercompanion.comschrieb:

The easiest way to accomplish this is the Windows Media Player. You can
download the WMP SDK from Microsoft.

.... another simple way is to use MCI:

<URL:http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=1>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Feb 16 '07 #3

Lloyd Sheen

Using the directx api is as simple as creating a Video object using a
constructor using the filename. Then you can use the Play() method of the
object to play the video. There are other methods for stopping and setting
the position of the video (if it supports it).

All in all it is very simple and all system should have directx support of
some kind. I recently updated to Vista (painful) but my app went from using
directx 9 on XP to 10 on Vista without a hicup.

Go to microsoft home page and select For Developers. The link for the
latest SDK is under Popular Downloads.

Lloyd Sheen

"Ryan S. Thiele" <ad***********@carriercompanion.comwrote in message
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The easiest way to accomplish this is the Windows Media Player. You can
download the WMP SDK from Microsoft.

"RB0135" <ro****@joshie.com.auwrote in message
news:11**********************@a75g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
>Hi all..

Just want to know the best way to view AVI's, JPG's, MPG's and similar
files in one control in a VB.NET application? The application will be
an advertising display tool.

Is there a simple control that can accomplish this (Free or
commercial), or are there controls/possibiliites already built into
the Framework (V2)?

Thanks for any responses...

Robert

Feb 16 '07 #4

RB0135

On Feb 16, 1:47 pm, "Lloyd Sheen" <a...@b.cwrote:

Using the directx api is as simple as creating a Video object using a
constructor using the filename. Then you can use the Play() method of the
object to play the video. There are other methods for stopping and setting
the position of the video (if it supports it).

All in all it is very simple and all system should have directx support of
some kind. I recently updated to Vista (painful) but my app went from using
directx 9 on XP to 10 on Vista without a hicup.

Go to microsoft home page and select For Developers. The link for the
latest SDK is under Popular Downloads.

Lloyd Sheen

"Ryan S. Thiele" <administra...@carriercompanion.comwrote in messagenews:79**********************************@m icrosoft.com...

The easiest way to accomplish this is the Windows Media Player. You can
download the WMP SDK from Microsoft.

"RB0135" <rob...@joshie.com.auwrote in message
news:11**********************@a75g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
Hi all..

Just want to know the best way to viewAVI's,JPG's,MPG'sand similar
files in one control in aVB.NETapplication? Theapplicationwill be
an advertising display tool.

Is there a simple control that can accomplish this (Free or
commercial), or are there controls/possibiliites already built into
the Framework (V2)?

Thanks for any responses...

Robert- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks...

I didn't even think about WMP or DirectX..

I will investigate.

Robert

Feb 16 '07 #5

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