what to choose among different mpeg players?

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From: Henrique Martins
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:10

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Hi.

I need to play mpeg files from a Builder project.

MediaPlayer component can't, as much as I can find, play original size
or expand to full screen - that's a project request.

ShellExecute() can call the default OS mpeg player. It obviously vary
from machine to machine. If someone uses Real Player, expansion to
full screen can't be achieved.

The Windows OS own Media Players can expand but they'r name change
(mplayer.exe mplayer2.exe mplayer32.exe wmplayer.exe). Not every OS
have the same player, some have more than one.

I am not enough familiar with Builder and these sort of matters, so I
can't "heavily attack" the problem.

I will try to call the various Windows players, using ShellExecute()
and test error flags until one of them does not return an error. Do
this make sense?

Any other suggestion? Any other "linkable player" that can guarantee
full screen?

Thanks
H. Martins

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