Re: Buffering a media content, while playing the other one in WMP

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Definitely, using one more WMP instance working in the background is a best
solution. You can quite easily hide/show windows using Framework classes.
Regards,

Vladimir V. Polischuk
IT Manager
www.voynex.com - custom software development, solutions for Windows Media
(pay-per-minute billing, streaming content protection, access control)


"Alessandro Angeli" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From: "fantom"

I am developing an application in C# that has a form with
Windows Media Player embedded inside. There are several
links to some online content in my app. and I want user
to change the content from one to another with a button
click. Since WMP spent some time while buffering for the
next content, I want to continue playing the current
content. There is an event called "Buffering" in
AXWindowsMediaPlayer class that signals when media player
finishes buffering the content. But I could not achieve
this with a single AXWindowsMediaPlayer object. Whatever
I did, I could not continue to play the first content
while buffering the second.

WMP can only open 1 media at a time so you need to use 2 players and swap
them. Seamless source switching is generically complicated and requires a
lower level approach than WMP. Even using DirectShow (which is what WMP
uses internally), you would still need multiple graphs, which is complex
to begin with, even more so in C#, since DS is designed to be used in C++.


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