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[lesan101]

I have the windows media player component. Instead of giving it a path i sign it a website link.

it wont play a .mp4 link ?

Any ideas?

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AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/wise/20120608/wise20120608-1280.m4v"

The code above will work, however if i find a link that is a .mp4 it won't play.

[visualtech]

Might be a problem with the codec. Use ffmpeg to inspect the stream and check the codec and then make sure that your component supports that codec; I'm pretty sure Windows Media Player doesn't support that format. It's a m4v: compression, bit-rate, etc. must be different for the component to play.

An alternative is https://github.com/ZeBobo5/Vlc.DotNet. Built on top of VLC, so you can be sure that it'll play almost anything; I've used it in one of my projects and I have to say it's pretty powerful!

Edit: Here's the documentation, pretty straight forward. https://vlcdotnet.codeplex.com/documentation

[lesan101]

Might be a problem with the codec. Use ffmpeg to inspect the stream and check the codec and then make sure that your component supports that codec; I'm pretty sure Windows Media Player doesn't support that format. It's a m4v: compression, bit-rate, etc. must be different for the component to play.

An alternative is https://github.com/ZeBobo5/Vlc.DotNet. Built on top of VLC, so you can be sure that it'll play almost anything; I've used it in one of my projects and I have to say it's pretty powerful!

Edit: Here's the documentation, pretty straight forward. https://vlcdotnet.codeplex.com/documentation

Thanks for the reply, i will take a look at this. cooll;

[visualtech]

I hope it works fine. Any problem, ask me!