Hi All,

I have a VB.NET application that uses the AXWindowMediaPlayer ActiveX to embed mpg videos to my application.

I have used the Play/pause/stop Ctlcontrols a lot but now i am stuck as i needed to change the video size of the playing video from 100 to 200%
hence my Questions:
- How can i by code change the video size of the video being played? by Video size i do not mean the control's size.. but the Video being played inside it. for example, i could want the videos to play at 200% and not at 100%.
- Is there a way to check the dimensions of the video being played so that i can by code change the video size if required as per the video. :-)

Hope somebody can help.. i am stuck at this and NEED a solution.

Thanks to all!

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The Scorpion

HiScorpion,

Document: AxWindowsMediaPlayer.uiMode (VB and C#)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262058(VS.90).aspx
The uiMode property gets or sets a value indicating which controls are shown in the user interface.

Value	Description
invisible	Windows Media Player is embedded without any visible user interface (controls, video or visualization window).
none	Windows Media Player is embedded without controls, and with only the video or visualization window displayed.
mini	Windows Media Player is embedded with the status window, play/pause, stop, mute, and volume controls shown in addition to the video or visualization window.
full	Default. Windows Media Player is embedded with the status window, seek bar, play/pause, stop, mute, next, previous, fast forward, rewind, and volume controls in addition to the video or visualization window.
custom	Windows Media Player is embedded with a custom user interface. Can only be used in C++ programs.

Suggestion:

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.stretchToFit=True

'e.g.Zoomto200%

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Width*=2

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Height*=2

'FullScreen

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.fullScreen=True

AxWindowsMediaPlayer.stretchToFit (VB and C#)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262056(VS.90).aspx
The stretchToFit property gets or sets a value indicating whether video displayed by the Windows Media Player control automatically sizes to fit the video window, when the video window is larger than the dimensions of the video image.

Best regards,
Martin Xie

HiScorpion,

Document: AxWindowsMediaPlayer.uiMode (VB and C#)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262058(VS.90).aspx
The uiMode property gets or sets a value indicating which controls are shown in the user interface.

Value	Description
invisible	Windows Media Player is embedded without any visible user interface (controls, video or visualization window).
none	Windows Media Player is embedded without controls, and with only the video or visualization window displayed.
mini	Windows Media Player is embedded with the status window, play/pause, stop, mute, and volume controls shown in addition to the video or visualization window.
full	Default. Windows Media Player is embedded with the status window, seek bar, play/pause, stop, mute, next, previous, fast forward, rewind, and volume controls in addition to the video or visualization window.
custom	Windows Media Player is embedded with a custom user interface. Can only be used in C++ programs.

Suggestion:

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.stretchToFit=True

'e.g.Zoomto200%

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Width*=2

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.Height*=2

'FullScreen

AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.fullScreen=True

AxWindowsMediaPlayer.stretchToFit (VB and C#)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262056(VS.90).aspx
The stretchToFit property gets or sets a value indicating whether video displayed by the Windows Media Player control automatically sizes to fit the video window, when the video window is larger than the dimensions of the video image.

Best regards,
Martin Xie

Hi,
I'm making a user interface for a competition. And I have a form that read and writes to an excel file and then calls another form, which plays a pre-recorded video using embedded windows media player.
The problem is that when I try toset the media player to fullscreen, it gives me an error saying: COMException was unhandled (Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)))
wondering if someone could help
My code for the second form with the video is:
So to explain what I'm doing in this code, I'm trying to open a video. But to reduce the time it take for it to load, I want to just hide the form and then play the video again next time.

Thanks for you help in advance
P.S. the variable windows_counter is a global variable.

hi martin ,I have same problem like scorpion but I want to change the size of video instead of changing the size of window media player.
Is there any property to do this please reply me as soon as possible.