WMP9 on PPC and registry keys

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

- 27 Jul 2004 08:21 GMT

Hi,

I have a question regarding the usage of the registry keys
of the WMP9 on WM 2003 by the WMP ActiveX control.

Does the WMP ActiveX control use the same registry keys
used by WMP9 to manage its operation, ie. max bandwidth,
etc.

Thank you for your help!
Panos

Reply to this Message

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 27 Jul 2004 11:35 GMT

At a guess I would say no, because the WM2003 resgutry structure and
keys are entirely different from those used on (Xp/2000/Win9x) - the
CE registry is a much more compact format.

I'll have a look though at the settings I've got currently and let you
know. What are you planning to do in the registry, do you have a good
editing tool ? PHMTools has a very good regedit if thats any help.

Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:21:22 -0700,

>Hi,
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>Thank you for your help!
>Panos

Reply to this Message

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 29 Jul 2004 09:31 GMT

OK Here's what we've got in the registry for WMP9 :

\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Player\Streaming

Key                My Setting (WLAN)
Connection speed        921600 (0x0E1000)
HTTP Support            1
Local Buffer            5
Local Only            0
Multicast            1
Proxy Address            [... _blank_ ....]
Proxy Port            0
Streaming Buffer            5
Streaming Only            0
TCP Support            1
UDP Port            49301
UDP Support            1
Use Proxy            0

Presumably if I specified a streaming proxy, there would be an entry
for proxy address, and Use Proxy would be set to 1.

I would compare these values to the WMP control for PC version 6.4, as
that's what the OCX control and object model is actually based on.

There are also a bunch of settings for WMP8 which don't seem to be in
use on my Axim (which has WMP9), they are broadly similar tho less
keys and values... the connection speed there is specified as 40057
(0x009C79), it looks like a default not-in-use value

HTH
Neil

>At a guess I would say no, because the WM2003 resgutry structure and
>keys are entirely different from those used on (Xp/2000/Win9x) - the
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>>Thank you for your help!
>>Panos

Reply to this Message

- 29 Jul 2004 15:01 GMT

Hi Neil,

Are you __sure__ the ActiveX control for WMP on Pocket PC
is based on the WMP 6.4 for the Pocket PC?

Does the UDP port specified on the Pocket PC represent the
_default_ UDP port to connect to a Windows Media Services
9 server?

Thank you for your input.
Best Regards,
Panayotis

>-----Original Message-----
>OK Here's what we've got in the registry for WMP9 :
[quoted text clipped - 55 lines]
>
>.

Reply to this Message

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 29 Jul 2004 15:29 GMT

Yes, I'm absolutely sure. I said the control and object model BTW not
the media content support (which is neither WMP6.4 nor WMP9). The
classID for example used in embedding corresponds to WMP6.4
{22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95},

All the object methods in the SDK, as far as they are supported as a
subset of WMP6.4 also correspond to WMP6.4 methods (In WMP7 and 9 for
desktop PC, these are available for backward compatibility only)

This isn't to say WMP for PPC *is* WMP6.4, only that it implements a
corresponding scripting model - its a different application on a
different processor running in a different OS environment, so it's
best not to extrapolate too much.

As far as UDP port numbers, I really couldn't say - the way to test
this is to run the equivalent of netstat -an command on your PPC while
it's actively connected to an MMS server and using *only* UDP for data
reception. Do you have such a setup ? What's the setting you have
listed for UDP port (in case it's not a fixed value, likely) ?

Cheers - Neil

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:01:25 -0700,

>Hi Neil,
>
[quoted text clipped - 85 lines]
>>
>>.

Reply to this Message

Panos - 29 Jul 2004 16:42 GMT

Hi Neil and thanks for your efforts.

We seem to have the exact same settings under the
\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Player\Streaming
registry branch (as expected).

However, I have an additional registry branch
\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Player 8.01

In it, most of the keys are the same as in the WMP
registry branch above.

Also, there is an additional folder under
\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ called "WMPPrefs" with only a
sub-key named "Global", BUT, it has not any prefs defined
within it whatsoever.

Does anyone know about WMPPrefs and how it relates to the
WMP ActiveX control for the Pocket PC v8.0 ?

Thank you all.
Best Regards,
Panos

>-----Original Message-----
>Yes, I'm absolutely sure. I said the control and object model BTW not
[quoted text clipped - 112 lines]
>
>.

Reply to this Message