DouglasBell
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- Aug 16, 2011
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Visual Basic 2005
Hi All
I have an information screen that displays messages and runs a video.
I would now like the reception to take over of controlling this so I want to write a very simple app that lets the reception from her PC control the various things.
I have the app working with the remote screens and she can update and display what she needs, however I am having difficluty in trying to find a way to control Windows Media Player from a remote App.
I basically want her to be able to Play / Pause / Stop / Repeat Mute, Minimize, Fullscreen and work the volume control remotly. There will only ever be 1 video playing on this screen.
Is it possible to control a remote computers Windows Media Player via a VB.net App.
I was playing with the SendMessage(ParenthWnd, WM_COMMAND, New IntPtr(WMP9_VOLUME_MUTE), lParam) and various commands, but for this to work I had to create a small process on the Display Screen that looked up an ini file for a value and sent a command based on the value it saw, this run on a timer. My problem with this is it cannot tell the current state of the WMP, if its stopped, paused ect, also it would stutter the video every so often
Cheers Dj
Hi All
I have an information screen that displays messages and runs a video.
I would now like the reception to take over of controlling this so I want to write a very simple app that lets the reception from her PC control the various things.
I have the app working with the remote screens and she can update and display what she needs, however I am having difficluty in trying to find a way to control Windows Media Player from a remote App.
I basically want her to be able to Play / Pause / Stop / Repeat Mute, Minimize, Fullscreen and work the volume control remotly. There will only ever be 1 video playing on this screen.
Is it possible to control a remote computers Windows Media Player via a VB.net App.
I was playing with the SendMessage(ParenthWnd, WM_COMMAND, New IntPtr(WMP9_VOLUME_MUTE), lParam) and various commands, but for this to work I had to create a small process on the Display Screen that looked up an ini file for a value and sent a command based on the value it saw, this run on a timer. My problem with this is it cannot tell the current state of the WMP, if its stopped, paused ect, also it would stutter the video every so often
Cheers Dj
