Playing media file in Windows CE

[Himanshu1984]

hi, I am developing an application in Windows CE platform is Windows Ce .net 4.2. i need to play media file through C code, i have managed to play media file in win32 through "system" command but this command is not available for Windows CE, i have tried CreateProcess function for Windows CE application but by this i am only able to play the files having the extention .exe. Here i need to play .wmv file in media player and i m having windows media player 9 series, can anyone please provide me any api by which i can play the media file(.wmv) in windows CE, i need it urgently any suggestion is appreciable.

Thanks
Himanshu

[Ancient Dragon]

have you used google to search for the solution to your problem?

Here is an interesting thread in Microsoft support site.

[Himanshu1984]

yes i have tried a lot of things,as i m working on it since last 6 or 7 days i have already gone through this thread which u provided, but there is nothing helpful for me, thanks for providing help but if anything else can be done that will be really very helpful for me.

Thanks
Himanshu

[Ancient Dragon]

Are you trying to use the WinCE emulator or an actual device? The emulators don't support a lot of stuff that the actual devices do mainly because emulators don't have access to the hardware. But I don't know if that's your problem or not. And not all devices that run WinCE are the same -- so what works on one manufacturer's device may or may not work on another. For example the scanners made by Symbols Technologies is a lot different than those made by Intermec. We had to make a lot of program changes when porting from one device to the other.

[Himanshu1984]

I am using the actual device not the simulator, well also my problem has been solved i have used the createProcess to play the media file but now i want to terminate the process by which the console of media player should also get closed autometically, right now i m using the TreminateProcess api but this process is returning the error code as 6 saying the handel is invalid, this is what i m using right now

CreateProcess(_T("\\windows\\ceplayer.exe"),_T("\\windows\\mo1263.wmv"), NULL, NULL, FALSE, CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, NULL, NULL, NULL, &ProcessInfo);

WaitForSingleObject( ProcessInfo.hProcess, INFINITE );

TerminateProcess(ProcessInfo.hProcess, uExitCode);

// Close process and thread handles.
CloseHandle( ProcessInfo.hProcess );

but i m not able to close the mediaplayer autometically.can u please provide some help on this.

[Himanshu1984]

hi, i have also managed to kill the process, thanks for ur help, do u have any information bout disabling the status bar and task bar of media player from the registry.