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[lesan101]

Does anyone know how to play a windows media player video on a form, that is coming from the resources of the program??

the video is a .wmv <-- same as .wma i guess

i have a AxWindowsMediaPlayer1 already on form

but what the heck ?!?! i tried everything.

i want to pick it up of the resource not no C drive !

so does anyone know ?

[Scottie1972]

it would probly be best to just have the .wmv in the same location as the main program file, and just use this to open the .wmv

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AxWindowMediaPlayer1.URL = Application.StartUpPath & "\myVideo.wmv"

If you where to exstract the video everythime you opened the program...it would take a long time to load depending on how large the video file is.

[lesan101]

if that is the case, is it possible to extract whats in the resource into a folder in the desktop or something?

then the player will just pick it up by there. ?

[MrAksel]

Yes you can use this code to save the movie resource to a file:

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Dim MovieData() As Byte
MovieData = My.Resources.Movie ' Change 'Movie' to the resource name
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllBytes(Application.StartUpPath & "\myVideo.wmv", MovieData, False)

Then you can use Scottie's code.

[lesan101]

Thank you MrAksel & Scottie1972 !
I have completed my program thanks to you.

out of curiosity, where does t extract it to?

[MrAksel]

It extracts to the path where the application was started. For example if you ave your .exe file on your desktop, it would save the movie to the desktop