Re: Seamless stream playing (a working example!!)

On 22 Aug 2005 19:05:18 -0700, schoenfeld1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>Alessandro Angeli [MVP::DigitalMedia] wrote:
>> "schoenfeld1@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>>
>> > I have been struggling to get seamless stream switching
>> > via ASX file to work on windows media player.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have a working example or ANY IDEA on how
>> > this can be done? (MSDN docs aren't helpful at all).
>>
>> MSDN docs are *very* helpful in this if you take the time to
>> read all the info there about the multimedia architecture.
>> But since you can not use ASX to work around a DirectShow
>> limit, you won't find a magical solution.
>
>Had you bothered to read the MSDN section you invoke you would find the
>examples useless.

The examples are useless because this is not possible with the current
version of media player. I'm sure that was explained clearly several
times, you seem to be quite 'hard of understanding' and more concerned
with being a time wasting troll.

>> Stop posting the same question over and over. I already
>> answered you and, from your description of the problem, that
>> is the *only* answer. If you don't like it, that doesn't
>> make it any less true.
>
>Another Microsoft failure. I've wasted WEEKS working around Microsoft
>bugs and API failures -with an attitude like yours it's no wonder why.

No, you're an idiot. If you really really can't work it out, read this
page about (1) repeated posting of the same bloody question

"Pointlessly annoying" :
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3002966

"Courtesy never hurts" :
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#courtesy

and (2) cross posting the same bloody question to several unrelated
newsgroups

"Choose your forum carefully"
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum

Allesandro's exactly corrrect. Just because *you* don't like the
answer (it's NO BTW) doesn't mean that keeping posting the question
will get you an answer you *DO* like :-P


>1. Had to write my own Panel, Control, Label, Button, GroupBox,
>TabControl, TabPage controls to replace the Windows Forms controls
>because they don't support xp-theme. Microsoft response was "xp-themed
>will be supported in .NET 2". LOL (by the way: your wonderful MSDN
>claims that .NET 1.1 supports xp themes which is a lie).

"Robustly claiming non-bugs" :
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id3001405

Tough. It's not "our" .NET, I'm a PHP developer for good reasons.

If you dislike it so much, find another technology rather than
bitching about it. How the hell is this related to windows media ?
Just take your boring rant and sod off to a newsgroup where people
*will* put up with this irrelevance.

<snip>Yawn Irrelevant Whinge</snip>

>4. Now I have to write my own damn media player because the geniuses at
>microsoft decided that smooth, flicker-free transition between clips is
>not a necessary.

So where was your request for this feature in the WM10 Beta ???

I didn't see it, and I *kept* all the beta newsgroups posts. So your
year-late whingeing is irrelevant and uninteresting. If you want to
improve products, take place in the product lifecycle, else shut the
hell up.

>You guys are a joke. You've succeeded only in motivating me to
>contribute to the mono project - which I will do once I'm done with
>this post.

"On not reacting like a loser" :
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#not_losing

I believe it's possible to demonstrate you're a moron who has no
capacity to ask a reasonable question and accept the answer from
experts (who happen to be real human beings). Instead you're a troll
who comes here to blow off steam about unrelated rubbish, and blame
*everybody* except yourself for your own shortcomings.

Mono is an excellent tech which by the sound of it you should already
have switched to long ago. Must be a glutton for punishment.

Enjoy yourself with that but don't come crying back here that the Mono
devs gave you an earful for being such an ass when you demand answers
you *like*, flame people who provide answers you *don't like*, and
show an inability to use discussion forums appropriately.

Bye, Troll
N.
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