How to play an AVI file

[Guest]

Hi

I hope somebody can point me to a sample C# code on how to run an avi file. I basically want to display the filecopy.avi while code is transfering files from one location to another

Thanks
Danny

 

[Rodrigo Meneses]

you could use the windows media player ocx to achieve this.
Salute!
-Rodrigo Meneses
C# MVP

Hi,

I hope somebody can point me to a sample C# code on how to run an avi

file. I basically want to display the filecopy.avi while code is
transfering files from one location to another.

 

[Elp]

you could use the windows media player ocx to achieve this.

Yes that's the only solution to my knowledge to play an AVI file in dotnet.
But that's a bit overkill in this case, isn't it? It requires WMP 9 to be
installed, plus WMP is not exactly a light weight software and it has some
anoying bugs. All that to make the user wait for a file copy!!!

Why not using a progress bar and/or an animated GIF? The picture box in .NET
supports animated GIF in standard.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Rodrigo,

You don't need to use media player. You can use the Multimedia API in
order to do this (making a good number of calls through the P/Invoke layer).
To find out how to do this, check out the section of the Platform SDK titled
"Playing a Movie", located at (watch for line wrap):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_playing_a_movie.asp

Hope this helps.