Booooze

Hey guys.

Haven't been around here for a while

I've been at school and been super busy and haven't had a whole lot of time for programming. Let alone, the coding that I have done I haven't run into any major problems that I wasn't able to solve on my own. Until now.

So I'll keep it brief. I'm not making a game, but I want my application to have a very visual interface. I finally got to the point in the development where I've decided I wanted to move it to DirectX. I was actually thinking about building it on top of a game engine. It will all take time and patience and no doubt I'll be short on both. However, I found SDL.NET. And well, it's pretty awesome, and simple to get going. It is perfect for what I am doing with the exception of one thing. It can't play video files (with the exception of mpeg-1). I need it to play AVI, WMV, MPEG, and DVD files. I'm considering trying to put in a Windows media player control, but Don't know how to get it to play on a surface (still working on it). If it doesn't work and I can't get videos to play, I'll slow thr project down and move to DX. The only other choice is for me to try something similar to SDL. And well that's what I'm posting this for. Does anybody know of a Library that will do this for me? I've been searching with no luck.

Thanks!

*by the way, I'm writing it in C# - hence the forum choice

JD-Salinger

hello, first and foremost im not a programming guru, just a beginner, but ive read lots of articles in gaming, but since your not making a game and you have an alternative(SDL.NET) ive checked it out and its a sort of a gaming library similar to PyGame. Ive been reading a lot of articles around game programming and ive seen Microsoft XNA Game Studio similar to what you are looking at.. and you just mentioned something visual right?. Perhaps Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) might be the one youve been looking for..... Hope this helps

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Booooze

Wow, I never thought of that. I didn't realize how powerful it is until I just looked at it. I'm going to look into it. Thanks man.

JD-Salinger

ive got some pretty good references in XNA and WPF.... just PM me if you need one

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lectricpharaoh

Why not post them in a new thread? I'd be interested in seeing them, and I suspect there are some others who'd like to read them as well.

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JD-Salinger

ive posted the tutorials lectricparaoh.... check it out now

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