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Windows Media Player

Funkymunky · 2004-04-06T14:53:43

Hey, I''m trying to make a program for the LAN we have in my apartment here. We have one computer hooked up to some monster speakers which we use to play music at parties. We also have my computer with generic speakers and a laptop that sits in the living room. What I want to do is make a program that can control windows media player across the network. I think I can do the network programming pretty easily, but I can''t figure out how to mess with WMP. I downloaded the windows media series 9 SDK stuff, but can''t make any sense of how to use it. specifically, my call to CoCreateInstance to create the server object returns REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG. Any help on using the SDK for simple stuff like playing/pausing/stopping a file and editing playlists? Could I maybe do it some other way, like with SendMessage calls or even command line options? Any help will be greatly appreciated by me and my roommates.

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Started by Funkymunky April 05, 2004 11:04 AM

10 comments, last by Funkymunky 20 years ago

flangazor

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April 06, 2004 06:25 AM

quote:Damn, thanks for the help but I'm using visual studio 6, straight C++. Any more ideas?

Yes. I changed the above code to illustrate the command line arguments you can pass to wmplayer to control it. I haven't tested it, so I presume if it doesn't work, it's about 20 minutes from working and being done.

I guess you could read a few books, attempt to use MFC and OLE, and possibly even DDE to connect the apps at a data level. If you're bored and enjoy coding more than using programs.

[edited by - flangazor on April 6, 2004 7:27:14 AM]

drowner

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April 06, 2004 02:53 PM

Or, a super easy way to get what you want without programming...

VNC

it will allow you to show the remote desktop, as if it was your own... so you could just control WMP directly...

Quick solution, over trying to program something..

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