Re: Windows Mobile 5 SDK for Pocket PC's -missing libs and documentation

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The multimedia components available in Windows CE 5.0 are not necessarily
present in Windows Mobile, Windows CE is a modular OS and Windows Mobile is
just a particular combination of those modules.

Windows Mobile 5.0 has a media player which will play back mp3 and wma audio
files and wmv video (not avi). The documentation is actually present in the
Windows Media Player 10 SDK (for the desktop player) and it shows which
methods are supported in the mobile version. The player is implemented as an
ActiveX control so can be used from native (C++) code or .NETCF v2.0 with
some additional work, see Alex Feinman's work:-
http://blog.opennetcf.org/afeinman/Trackback,guid,1dfc3c39-d3cc-4faa-b5f6-cb5c9aed61dd.aspx

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
www.peterfoot.net | www.inthehand.com

"Rabbit25" <bojan.konic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1145827609.583195.75210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi everyone,

for one week now, I'm trying desperately to get my pocket pc
application to play an mp3 file.
(without invoking windows media player in any way).

I'm using the following tools:

Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Windows Mobile SDK for Pocket PC

I narrowed the problem down to DirectShow. Rumor has it, that
DirectShow enables playback of MP3'S.

So I tried to get a codesample from MSDN to open an avi file (and later
try it with mp3)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcemultimedia5/html/wce50condirectshowsamplecode.asp

Since my knowledge in unmanaged code and c++ is very limited, I tried
to follow the build setup instrucions:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcemultimedia5/html/wce50conbuildingdirectshowapplications.asp

the thing is: for no obvious the SDK for Pocket PC doesn't come with
the quartz.lib .
and: the documentation in the SDK has quite a handfull of missing
pages.

I'd appreciate any help.

Bojan



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