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Fábio Antunes
Fábio Antunes

Reputation: 17164

Synchronous sound playback from video source in VideoSourcePlayer control

I'm using the Video Source Player control from AForge.Controls to play a few video clips within a winforms application.

The code is something like this.

string fileName = @"C:\path\to\file.example";
videoSourcePlayer.VideoSource = new AForge.Video.AsyncVideoSource(new FileVideoSource(fileName), true);
videoSourcePlayer.Start();

The video file includes both audio and video streams, however as far I'm aware the control only handles video and not audio.

How can I then play the audio stream in a synchronous fashion with the video source player control?

Thank you.

EDIT:

The Video Source Player control has a event named NewFrame, which allows to determine the precise video position which could be useful to keep the audio being played synchronized with the video.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1304

Answers (1)

Vitor Canova
Vitor Canova

Reputation: 3976

Since you mentioned:

I'm only looking for other alternative in which is possible to reproduce the audio contained the video file and somehow keep it synchronized with the video player control...

Maybe you can have a better luck by using a ElementHost and using WPF media control.

If this solution is eligible for you follow this steps:

  1. Create a new WPF UserControl and add to your WindowsForms app.
  2. In this UserControl add a media element and configure the way you want.
  3. Build the solution.
  4. Now in the toolbox must appear YourSolutionName Controls and you controls must be there.
  5. Just drag it to your WindowsForms app and it must create an ElementHost.

I've created the UserControl as follow:

    <MediaElement Name="VideoMediaElement" 
                  Source="Media/Wildlife.wmv" 
                  LoadedBehavior="Manual"/>

Just remember in this example this file must be side-by-side with your app in a Media folder. If you miss this step it will give you the strange and not helpful error 0xC00D11B1.

The loaded behavior Manual will give you the chance to control de video more freely.

After that you can do whathever you want in this UserControl like create Play and Pause:

    internal void Play()
    {
        this.VideoMediaElement.Play();
    }

And to access them in WindowsForms do this:

    private void WindowsFormsButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var videoControl = this.MyElementHost.Child as VideoUserControl;

        videoControl.Pause();
    }

Hope this helps. WPF MediaElement is much more easy to seach for than other libs.

Upvotes: 2

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