Has anyone ever succeeded in adding windows mediaplayer to a Visual Basic 
2005 project in Windows 7, managed to distribute the build to another windows 
7 machine and got it to play either:

A video file compressed with MS Video 1 or as a .wmv
A video file compressed with cinepac?

The standard methods that work in XP or Vista do not seem to work for me 
with Windows 7. Is this possible in VS basic 2008 or 2005?

Please, please help.

Thanks,

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:33:25 -0800, Jon <Jon@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Has anyone ever succeeded in adding windows mediaplayer to a Visual Basic 
>2005 project in Windows 7, managed to distribute the build to another windows 
>7 machine and got it to play either:
>
>A video file compressed with MS Video 1 or as a .wmv
>A video file compressed with cinepac?


LOL - please tell me you're kidding ? Those codecs are as old as the
ark - I think from at best 1995-1997 ! Wow I haven't heard of those
since windows 3.11 :-) Fair takes me back...


>The standard methods that work in XP or Vista do not seem to work for me 
>with Windows 7. Is this possible in VS basic 2008 or 2005?

I'd find a legacy transcoder and batch process all the files to a more
modern codec. I'd be very surprised if any support remains in modern
OS players for those sorts of content now.

Out of interest, see if VideoLAN can play them back :
http://www.videolan.org/ as you may be able to script that to conver
or even stream them...

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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