[python-win32] WMPlayer.OCX COM object: player window is not opened

[Mark Hammond]

On 28/07/2013 7:23 PM, lambda wrote:
> I'm trying to instantiate and use a Windows Media Player COM object. I can do
> that and all seems fine, but the player window is not opened.
>
> Here's my code:

The code didn't come through, but can be seen on nabble.

Unfortunately, you are dealing with an OCX, so you need to host it in an 
OCS container to see any such UI.  Pythonwin has support for this 
meaning you could have Pythonwin show the UI (see the 
pythonwin/pywin/demos directory) but it's extremely difficult to have 
that work via vanilla python.

Mark

>
> I get the sound from this video, but no video window is shown. And in the
> process list I don't find a wmplayer.exe process, just a wmpnetwk.exe
> process (whereby I'm not sure if this process is related to my COM object).
>
> I played around a bit and found that
>
> actually opens a WMPlayer window; but that player can't be controlled by COM
> commands;  and similar are ineffective.
>
> Maybe I'm just overlooking a silly detail, but I'm stuck on this - any help
> is appreciated!
>
>
>
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