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powershellwindows-10windows-media-player
Iratzar Carrasson Bores
Iratzar Carrasson Bores

Reputation: 175

Play video with powershell on Windows 10

I tried to use the code of this post.

When I use this code directly on PowerShell terminal it run correctly.

Add-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore
$filepath = "C:\Temp\test\Wildlife.wmv"
$wmplayer = New-Object System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer
$wmplayer.Open($filepath)
Start-Sleep 2 
$duration = $wmplayer.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.Seconds
$wmplayer.Close()

start playing
$proc = Start-process -FilePath wmplayer.exe -ArgumentList $filepath -PassThru

But when I run the code on .bat file, a cmd window appears and disappears in a few seconds and without further action.

If I run the .bat file on CMD, this errors appear:

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The code inserted in .bat file is:

Add-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore
 $filepath = [uri] "C:\Users\??????\Desktop\small.mp4"
 $wmplayer = New-Object System.Windows.Media.MediaPlayer
 $wmplayer.Open($filepath)
 Start-Sleep 2 # This allows the $wmplayer time to load the audio file
 $duration = $wmplayer.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.TotalSeconds
 $wmplayer.Play()
 Start-Sleep $duration
 $wmplayer.Stop()
 $wmplayer.Close()

I would be most thankful if you could help me solving this problem.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9620

Answers (1)

Mark Wragg
Mark Wragg

Reputation: 23385

You are attempting to run PowerShell commands within a .bat file (as a result the PowerShell engine isn't being used to execute the code so the commands fail).

You need to save the script as a .ps1 file, then execute it from the command-line either via it's full path name or by changing to the directory where the script exists and entering:

.\scriptname.ps1

Where scriptname is the name you saved the file at.

If you want to execute the script via a .bat file, you still need to save it as a .ps1 and then create a .bat file with the following content:

Powershell.exe -File  C:\path\to\my\script\myscript.ps1

Obviously correcting the path accordingly. Note there is no advantage to running the script this way, but one reason you might use a .bat file is if you needed to change the execution policy to allow script execution (I don't think you do in your case) as follows:

Powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted -File C:\path\to\my\script\myscript.ps1

Upvotes: 1

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