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Do my app need to have windows media player to use axwindowsmediaplayer in Visual Basic?

Hello,

I've made an app to listen to some radio streams using AxWindowsMediaPlayer. I'm using Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2015. So far, it works in a couple testing computers running Windows 10 but not in a computer running a fresh Windows 7.

That Win7 computer is not in my reach so I can't fully test everything but my guess is that Windows Media Player is not installed or initialized? Could that be it?

What I wonder is if WMP needs to be installed in the target computers (which is kinda obvious) but also initialized? I remember in Windows 7 WMP asked a bunch of questions the first time you opened it.

If that's so, is there some way to include some prerequisites with my app so that wouldn't matter?

Thanks in advance!
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use the direct-x direct sound or .net framework instead
Create custom control (Name = "MediaPlayer") and put WebBrowser (Dock=Fill, Name= "wbMedia") on it.
Imports System.Text
Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class MediaPlayer
    Private _url As String, _autoPlay, _loop As Boolean

    Private Sub MediaPlayer_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim sbMedia As New StringBuilder
        sbMedia.AppendLine("<OBJECT ID='MediaPlayer' width=100% height=100% ")
        sbMedia.AppendLine("CLASSID='CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6'>")
        sbMedia.AppendLine("</OBJECT>")
        wbMedia.DocumentText = sbMedia.ToString
    End Sub
    <Editor(GetType(System.Windows.Forms.Design.FileNameEditor), GetType(System.Drawing.Design.UITypeEditor))> _
    Public Property MediaPath() As String
        Get
            Return _url
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _url = value
            If wbMedia.Document Is Nothing Then Return
            Dim player As Windows.Forms.HtmlElement = wbMedia.Document.GetElementById("MediaPlayer")
            If player Is Nothing Then Return
            player.SetAttribute("URL", _url)
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Property AutoStart() As Boolean
        Get
            Return _autoPlay
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
            _autoPlay = value
            If wbMedia.Document Is Nothing Then Return
            Dim player As Windows.Forms.HtmlElement = wbMedia.Document.GetElementById("MediaPlayer")
            If player Is Nothing Then Return
            player.DomElement.settings.autostart = _autoPlay
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Property AutoRepeat() As Boolean
        Get
            Return _loop
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As Boolean)
            _loop = value
            If wbMedia.Document Is Nothing Then Return
            Dim player As Windows.Forms.HtmlElement = wbMedia.Document.GetElementById("MediaPlayer")
            If player Is Nothing Then Return
            player.DomElement.settings.setMode("loop", _loop)
        End Set
    End Property

    Public Sub StopPlaying()
        If wbMedia.Document Is Nothing Then Return
        Dim player As Windows.Forms.HtmlElement = wbMedia.Document.GetElementById("MediaPlayer")
        If player Is Nothing Then Return
        player.DomElement.controls.stop()
    End Sub

    Private Sub wbMedia_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles wbMedia.DocumentCompleted
        If wbMedia.Document Is Nothing Then Return
        Dim player As Windows.Forms.HtmlElement = wbMedia.Document.GetElementById("MediaPlayer")
        If player Is Nothing Then Return
        wbMedia.Document.Body.Style = "margin:0px;padding:0px"
        If Not player.GetAttribute("URL").Equals(_url, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) Then
            player.SetAttribute("URL", _url)
        End If
        If Not player.DomElement.settings.autostart.Equals(_autoPlay) Then
            player.DomElement.settings.autostart = _autoPlay
        End If
        If Not player.DomElement.settings.getMode("loop").Equals(_loop) Then
            player.DomElement.settings.setMode("loop", _loop)
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

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You can add some properties/methods as well. See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd564034(v=vs.85).aspx and/or
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd562656(v=vs.85).aspx
@ARK your solution requires the windows media player to be on the client machine better to just use .net classes
If it's not on client machine webbrowser prompt user to download it
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@Ark: I really would prefer the embedded Windows Media Player instead of a web browser.

@David: I can't find anything about .net supporting AAC codec. Just WAV and MP3. Can you point me please to any info on this? Thanks ;)
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