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Chaky · 02-06-2008, 03:22 AM

Hello All:

Can anyone tell me why I can't play MP3 or WAV files with the Windows Mobile
5 media player control when the filename is a URL? Even with the Media
Player application on Windows Mobile 5 it doesn't work. If the files I want
to play are stored on the device, no problem. But if I enter a URL it won't
work. My fear is that I need to stream the content, which I don't want to
do. Here is some code that results in a unsupported file type error.
There's a lot of code here, but the main point is that setting the player URL
property to an http:// address doesn't work. Is this really a limitation of
Windows Mobile?

02-06-2008, 03:22 AM	#1
Chaky Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: none	Can't Play MP3/WAV over HTTP Hello All: Can anyone tell me why I can't play MP3 or WAV files with the Windows Mobile 5 media player control when the filename is a URL? Even with the Media Player application on Windows Mobile 5 it doesn't work. If the files I want to play are stored on the device, no problem. But if I enter a URL it won't work. My fear is that I need to stream the content, which I don't want to do. Here is some code that results in a unsupported file type error. There's a lot of code here, but the main point is that setting the player URL property to an http:// address doesn't work. Is this really a limitation of Windows Mobile?