Vista - Automating Windows Media Player.

Hi,
When
$ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
Command creates a new InternetExplorer application, (Visible thru task
manager)
Why is
$wmp = new-object -ComObject MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1
not creating a new Windows Media Player application?

Am I missing out something?

Regards,
Mugunth

MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1 is not self-hosting; it's from an OCX instead of
an EXE, and to get a visible window it needs to be created within a GUI
container.

If you're after a visible, controllable media player, you may need to do
some work to create a container in HTML to make it visible and possible to
manipulate. Personally, I think this is an awful way to have to do it for
scripting.

If you just want to play audio files and don't care about visibility, you
can use the following function that I developed based on suggestions from
Jim Truher in the gadget-piano thread:

#Start-Media.ps1
Param([string]$FilePath = $null)
$player = New-Object -ComObject wmplayer.ocx;
if($FilePath)
{
$media = $player.newmedia($FilePath)
[void]$player.currentplaylist.appenditem($media);
$player.controls.play();
}
return $player;



"Mugunth" <mugunth.kumar@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> When
> $ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
> Command creates a new InternetExplorer application, (Visible thru task
> manager)
> Why is
> $wmp = new-object -ComObject MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1
> not creating a new Windows Media Player application?
>
> Am I missing out something?
>
> Regards,
> Mugunth
>