Why? Look at this class
System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer
, which is a part of WPF:
MediaPlayer Class (System.Windows.Media)[
^].
I hardly can imagine that the use of the direct use of AxWMPLib component can ever give you any benefits over
System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer
. Try this element first. If you have any reasons to consider it as insufficient (oh, there are a lot of such reasons), you should better resort to some other components, not related to notoriously feature-poor Microsoft player. First of all, it could be a component based on VideoLAN (VLC).
—SA