The Windows Media Player (WMP) control is an ActiveX control used by developers to add multimedia playback capabilities to Web pages or applications. It allows you to embed Windows Media content in applications such as Internet Explorer. It also provides a programming interface for rendering a variety of network streaming and non-streaming multimedia formats.

The Microsoft WMP control is built on Microsoft DirectShow technology. DirectShow is based on Component Object Model (COM) architecture, which employs components called filters that can be plugged in to process multimedia data. Each filter is designed to receive digital input, process the data, and pass the results on to the next filter. The filters are arranged in a configuration called a filter graph. The WMP controls use an appropriate DirectShow filter graph to parse, decode, and render the media stream. The WMP controls are implemented through the DirectShow Filter Graph Manager (FGM).

See the Windows Media Technologies chapter in the Graphics and Multimedia section of the Windows CE SDK for information on how to use the WMP controls. For more information on DirectShow Interfaces, see Getting Started with DirectShow.

There are three types of information covered in the following sections of this document.

A listing of the methods, properties, and events available in WMP is included in this documentation.

Following this is a listing of the unsupported items in the Windows CE implementation of the WMP control.

If a method or property is not supported under Windows CE, it is still exposed. However manipulating it will have no visible effect.

 Last updated on Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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