Did Microsoft Intentionally Kill WMP Streaming Plug-In Functionality? Le Chaud Lapin <jaibuduvin[ at ]gmail.com> 11/22/2008 8:29:14 PM Hi All, I have a concurrent thread running about how to get WMP to accept a streaming URL that has the format: MyStreamingProtocol://.... It appears that WMP 9.0 made this possible with "Data Source Plug- Ins": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741974(VS.85).aspx Now I am reading the documentation for WMP 11.0, and it appears that they have removed this capability? Is this true? If so, why would Microsoft make something like this available and then remove it? If not, how can I achieve the same thing in WMP 11.0. TIA, -Le Chaud Lapin-

Re: Did Microsoft Intentionally Kill WMP Streaming Plug-In Functionality? Le Chaud Lapin <jaibuduvin[ at ]gmail.com> 11/22/2008 9:42:06 PM On Nov 22, 2:29 pm, Le Chaud Lapin <jaibudu...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi All, > > I have a concurrent thread running about how to get WMP to accept a > streaming URL that has the format: > > MyStreamingProtocol://.... > > It appears that WMP 9.0 made this possible with "Data Source Plug- > Ins": > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741974(VS.85).aspx > > Now I am reading the documentation for WMP 11.0, and it appears that > they have removed this capability? Apparently not. The new function is WMCreateStreamForURL(): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa391629(VS.85).aspx But in the small amount of documentation, there is at least one bug. The documentation says one should use HKLM registy keep, but I have seen expert in this group say that it should be HKCU, so I have to actually write the code to find out whose telling the truth. :) Of course, there is also the LoadLibrary/FreeLibrary mismatch bug in this function. Not sure if it has been fixed yet: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320630 -Le Chaud Lapin-

Re: Did Microsoft Intentionally Kill WMP Streaming Plug-In Functionality? "Alessandro Angeli" <nobody[ at ]nowhere.in.the.net> 11/23/2008 2:34:28 AM From: "Le Chaud Lapin" [...] The answer to the question in the subjet is NO. You are just looking in the wrong place. Read my reply to your previous thread (and,, by the way, do *not* start a new thread on the same topic). [Quoted Text] > Of course, there is also the LoadLibrary/FreeLibrary > mismatch bug in this function. Not sure if it has been > fixed yet: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320630 As the article says, that applies to WMF7.0, which is about 8 years old. -- // Alessandro Angeli // MVP :: DirectShow / MediaFoundation // mvpnews at riseoftheants dot com // http://www.riseoftheants.com/mmx/faq.htm