playing video(all formats) in windows form

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Hi friends.. I am developing a project in which i have to play 4 videos on single screen by dividing the screen into 4 portions.. i have done that.. i used windows media player for playing those videos.. Each portion will be playing multiple videos one after the other by them self.. Everything is fine but the problem is when a video is ended and the next video is staring- in that gap videos playing in other portions pause for half a second or so... Your thoughts on this??

Posted 16-Sep-13 20:11pm

Sachin Athrady

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Sep-13 2:24am

Don't you think that "all" is an unrealistic exaggeration? :-)
—SA

Sachin Athrady 17-Sep-13 2:30am

yea sir... but atleast it should play usual formats like mov,avi,mkv etc..

Thanks7872 17-Sep-13 3:11am

it should play usual formats like mov,avi,mkv etc. has nothing to do with the question you have asked.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Sep-13 8:53am

OP needs the explanation of the simple facts: the formats and codecs do not belong to Media Player, they are installed in the system...

I added my answer, please see. Not really a solution yet, but useful...

—SA

Sachin Athrady 17-Sep-13 3:19am

no sir.. i was just replying SA's comment...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Sep-13 8:56am

You are right. This is a problem: the video are not synchronized. As to "all format": there is no such thing as "all", but you can install more codecs in the system. Windows Media Player depends on them...
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Sep-13 9:11am

I added my solution, but this may not be a solution for your problem, just an alternative you may try: VLC player wrapper, open-source.
Generally, VLC is much more powerful compared to Windows Media Player, that's all.

Besides, I advised on where to get the most of the codecs. (When it comes to "all formats"). But this is related to other players, not VLC, which is based on FFMpeg and does not depends on the codec library.

—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-09-17T03:06:00

Not answering to the main problem, in relation to "all formats": this is not defined by Windows Media Player itself.
Actually, by default, the repertoire of available media formats and codecs is ridiculously narrow. Usually, you need to install a lot more, which is done on the system (please see my comment to the answer).

I would highly recommend, for example, freeware K-Lite Codec Pack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Lite_Codec_Pack[^],
http://codecguide.com/[^].

It comes with alternative player, one of the best, "Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema". Compared to it, Windows Media Player's features look ridiculous. However, I don't know the components based on it.

You can use a different component based on Video LAN, or VCL player:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player[^],
https://videolan.org/vlc/[^].

This one does not depend on installed codecs and can play the most of the kinds of media. How to use it in your code? It is open source, provides the API, and there are .NET wrappers for this API. You can use one of them:
https://wiki.videolan.org/C_Sharp/[^].

So, try some of them out. It may help to solve your main problem, too.

Good luck,

—SA

Singh Gyan · Answer 2 · 2013-09-16T20:30:00

Solution 1

create different of each of the object of window media player lirbary u r using. May b there is a single instance of the object which playing all four video.

Or you can also check on crossover property of the window media player object. Hope this helps you.

Posted 16-Sep-13 20:30pm

Singh Gyan

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Sachin Athrady 17-Sep-13 2:31am

no sir... i am creating new instace for each portion and also each portion is playing in different threads

V.Lorz 17-Sep-13 3:23am

Different threads? Are you using the media player ActiveX control for playing the videos?

Sachin Athrady 17-Sep-13 5:21am

i am using the windows media player control from com components

V.Lorz 17-Sep-13 5:38am

In that case I suppose all of them will be updating the viewport from code which runs in the main thread, so if any of them takes too long for completing one task in that thread all other viewport updates will be delayed.

This perhaps will not take you too long, take a look at using the VLC media player. There is some information about it here: http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/653111/Media-player-for-windows-forms

Singh Gyan · Answer 3 · 2013-09-16T20:34:00

Solution 2

in media player we have something call crossover. What that does it start a file eventhough the previous files doesnt get completed, we need to specify the duration. check with that property. might that help you.

-SG

Posted 16-Sep-13 20:34pm

Singh Gyan

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Sachin Athrady 17-Sep-13 2:38am

no sir... i am creating new instace for each portion and also each portion is playing in different threads

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