Playing high quality audio files

[Lonifasiko]

I've been playing with Recorder class from OpenNETCF.Multimedia.Audio
in order to record .wav files. I need to play these audio files for
some users but I see that they take too much space. A small .wav of 15
seconds (recorded at maximum quality) is taking 1,75 Mb and that's
impossible when talking about PPC's storage space.

Is there any way of having ligthweigth audio files with medium-high
quality and be able to play them with CF 2.0? What about MP3 playing?
Supported in Windows Mobile 2003 and 2003 SE? I suppose Windows Mobile
5.0 will do it, but I'm afraid previous OS-s will not.

What about deploying the audio files with the final output? Is it
better to deploy them separately and left them in a specific folder or
include them as embeeded resources? I can need more or less 10-15 audio
files, therefore I think including them as embeeded resources can make
the final .exe very heavy.

Could anybody advise me about this audio issues? It really hurries me.
Thanks very much.

 

[Lonifasiko]

Is there a way I can programatically play MP3 files in Windows Mobile
2003, 2003 SE and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices?

What library or framework (.NET CF, OpenNETCF,.....) should I use for
this purpose?

Can anybody give me just a little suggestion. Thanks again.

 

[Sergey Bogdanov]

Take a look at this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ca3a78a020d/1ec9d258563c833f#1ec9d258563c833f

 

[Lonifasiko]

Thanks Sergey, I've already seen that post but I've posted this
question if someone with audio playing experience on PPC could give me
the best and only approach to play MP3 files in WM2003, WM2003SE and
WM5.0.

I've read MP3 files can be played with Media Player.......I don't like
the idea of showinf MediaPlayer in front of my application. Is there
any silent mode or something similar to start play the audio file with
MediaPlayer in "background mode".

I've seen FMOD's web site and downloaded their "FMOD 3.74 Programmers
API for PPC". Then I've also found a .NET interface for FMOD in another
site linked in this newsgroup.

Now I can give all this features a try, but I understand MP3 files can
be played programatically in WM2003 and above, can't they? And wihout
the interaction of MediaPlayer?

Regards.

 

[Lonifasiko]

I've been playing with different kinds of .NET wrappers that wrap FMOD
functionality. None of them has worked for me!!!

Has anyone used FMOD for playing MP3 files in PPC successfully? If so,
please do send me a good link to download the suitable wrapper or at
least, point me in the right direction with a little snippet of code. I
would really appreciate it.

Thanks very much in advance.