Embedding Media Player 10 into Mobile 5.0

[Guest]

Can someone take a moment to educate me on the options to embed windows media
10 into my mobile 5.0 application.

I have VS2005 Beta 2 installed along with Windows Media Player 10 SDK and
Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone SDK.

I have a C# mobile application started but I can't see where I can add a
reference to the media player?

Can someone shed some light for me.

Thanks

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

See if this is of any help:
http://blog.opennetcf.org/afeinman/default,date,2005-08-25.aspx

 

[Guest]

Dear Alex,

I've briefly reviewed your presentation and other related articles here in
the newsgroups as well as other sources. I'm not overly familiar with
unmanged code since most of my development has been in C# and VB.

What is becoming painfully clear is that MS has very little documentation on
this subject. More to the point there are no working examples of how one
embeds media player into a mobile 5.0 application in a C# example.

Your discussions seem to speak of work arounds for this. Are you aware of
any examples how one embeds media player into a C# application at a very
basic or intermedia level. Are you plugged in to MS and do you know what they
are saying about support for media player integration into mobile 5.0 apps
natively?

Thanks Alex

 

[Guest]

Paragraph 2 in the blog entry he pointed to has a source doenload, which
uses Media Player.

-Chris

 

[Guest]

Thanks Guys, I do appreciate your help but my point about MS and lack of
support still stands unless I'm missing something.

What is Microsoft's stance on allowing C# and VB.NET developers gain access
to media player functionality inside there mobile 5.0 apps.

Is there something I'm missing here, has there been some sort of
announcement/commitement by MS that addresses this other than a work around?

Thanks

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

I can tell you exactlly what is the Microsoft stance on this is. They would
have loved to be able to include this in the VS2005/CF2 release, but could
not due to priorities and resource availability. They did include however
everything one needed to host a control in a CF2 application. This is pretty
much a quote from a presentation given by Steven Pratschner (one of the
people behind the interop implementation in CF).

The code you see attached to the webcast has been developed with guidance
from NetCF team and presented as a recommended solution at MEDC'05. Later at
PDC when the team preparing the demo for Jim Allchin keynote needed to host
the media player in a smartphone application, they have also used this
library.

Pray tell me what is it you find it lacking? Visual media player
representation in the designer? It will be pretty much pointless since we
are talking about the device control and there is no server side control to
represent it accurately.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Alex

I can tell you exactlly what is the Microsoft stance on this is. They would
have loved to be able to include this in the VS2005/CF2 release, but could
not due to priorities and resource availability. They did include however
everything one needed to host a control in a CF2 application. This is pretty
much a quote from a presentation given by Steven Pratschner (one of the
people behind the interop implementation in CF).

The code you see attached to the webcast has been developed with guidance
from NetCF team and presented as a recommended solution at MEDC'05. Later at
PDC when the team preparing the demo for Jim Allchin keynote needed to host
the media player in a smartphone application, they have also used this
library.

Pray tell me what is it you find it lacking? Visual media player
representation in the designer? It will be pretty much pointless since we
are talking about the device control and there is no server side control to
represent it accurately.