Movie files in VB.Net

[Guest marcg]

LS,

 

May I ask to share your expriences in playing movie files (e.g. using the mediaplayer control) in a VB.Net application?

 

Is there a better/other way next to the interop-solution with Mediaplayer to play AVI movies inside a VB app?

 

The app needs to be able to start, stop, pause, FF, RW AND set/get the frame position of the movie.

 

Thank you for any/all feedback!

 

Regards.

[Derek Stone]

Unless you want to decode the AVI files yourself you don't have much of a choice. The control works well though, so I don't see a huge problem.

[Guest marcg]

The challenge is that I want to deploy the app though an Internet server ("smart client" as MS calls it). Using de Mediaplayer OCX requires an additional preinstallation on the client computer. Past experiences with a VB6 app have shown that this creates problem on a few % of the client computers.

 

I'd hoped for a pure .Net assembly-based solution, and you're right, decoding the AVI with self-written code is not the way to go. (I could never reach a testing base that is broad enough to allow me to acheve the necessary robustness for the code.)

 

Incidently, can anyone point me to a resource where I can find some sample code to decode AVI files?

 

Thanks for the feedback!