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hi,
I want to play video files in c# but not by using wmp or ..., i want the main(core) of the code.

Posted 20-Nov-10 9:37am

mehdi_k

Updated 20-Nov-10 10:33am

HimanshuJoshi

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HimanshuJoshi · Answer 1 · 2010-11-20T10:39:00

To play a video file you need to do two things

1. Decode and Decompress the video, since all the video file formats are compressed and coded using certain method. There are several ways to do that. One is use open-source FFMPEG[^] library to get the raw video from the compressed and coded video file.

2. Show the video on display, for windows you will need DirectX[^].

This is starting point for starting development. However if you do not wish to develop, and want entire working code, then I suggest you search in Google for open-source video players.