[Wide Awake]

So i have the windows media player component already in there. I want button 1 to play a .mp4 from a website, not a file path.

i have this:

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = "www.website.com/movie.mp4"

But it doesn't seem to work.

Any suggestions?

[Sleeping With Sirens]

if anything, download the file from the website into a temp directory using a WebClient and play it from that temporary directory you've just placed it in.

If you're trying to make something like Pandora or something, this will be inefficient, but if you just need one or two files, this should work.

[Wide Awake]

if anything, download the file from the website into a temp directory using a WebClient and play it from that temporary directory you've just placed it in.

If you're trying to make something like Pandora or something, this will be inefficient, but if you just need one or two files, this should work.

That's actually what i want to avoid. Downloading anything. I just want it to stream.

[Sleeping With Sirens]

That's actually what i want to avoid. Downloading anything. I just want it to stream.

Mind posting your entire method for accomplishing this? (the code for the method / void, whatever you want to call it).

[Wide Awake]

Mind posting your entire method for accomplishing this? (the code for the method / void, whatever you want to call it).

It's not much. Just a play button that will autoplay a link.

Lets say the link is this

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/wise/2012...8-1280.m4v

edit: Hmm it seems to work well with the .m4v link above. But a .mp4 wont work. I wonder because if the component is old and outdated? Perhaps using VLC component would do the trick? If so.. would that person need to have vlc installed to actually play the video file?

[Odus]

edit: Hmm it seems to work well with the .m4v link above. But a .mp4 wont work. I wonder because if the component is old and outdated? Perhaps using VLC component would do the trick? If so.. would that person need to have vlc installed to actually play the video file?

If you include the .dll with your application, it should be fine. Try it on a VM just to make sure.