Playing media from stream in .net

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I am developing application that receives media content(.mp3/.mp4/.avi) in form of bytes.
However, as WPF doesn't support playing media from stream, So I started with WMP.dll.
I am creating class library that receives media in form of bytes and media format and play media accordingly.
Referring Creating the WMP Programmatically, however, I didn't find method to pass bytes stream.

So my question is how do I play media from bytes using wmp.dll?

(I am using 'WMP.dll' through COM and located at 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\wmp.dll')

Posted 5-Oct-13 22:37pm

donaldabhay

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2013-10-06T04:34:00

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You cannot pass a byte stream to MediaPlayer and expect it to work. MediaPlayer doesn't support it.

You will have to use a different player that does. I don't know of one off the top of my head.

An alternate method would be to use DirectShow, but that's not exactly easy.

Posted 6-Oct-13 4:34am

Dave Kreskowiak