Are you sure you don't want oPlay = CREATEOBJECT("WMPlayer.OCX")


>thanks..
>i am going to check
>>On my XP system, it's C:\WINDOWS\system32\wmpdxm.dll. (WM Player version 11)
>>>don't know which one...but the file i was trying to play was a .wav file anyway.
>>>by the way, which is the program called by the code ?
>>>i mean ..wmp.dll or anything else ?
>>>First i tried with a form in which i loaded a windows mediaplayer object , i mean an OLE object and it worked
>>>actually i was trying to skip all that big application I don't need but i had this problem
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>I came into a strange problem and I was cought by surprise !!!
>>>>>
>>>>>i launch an application whith these instructions
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>oPlay = CreateObject("Mediaplayer.Mediaplayer")
>>>>>oPlay.filename = "file.mp3"
>>>>>oplay.volume   = lnVolume
>>>>>oPlay.play()
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>well i get the error 1426 : OLE error code 0x800a0005: Unknown COM status code at the last line of code.
>>>>>It is surprising but it works perfectly under Vista!!!! while i get the error under WinXP
>>>>>
>>>>>How come ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you all again
>>>>>Alessio
>>>>
>>>>What version of Media Player on XP? Earlier versions didn't support MP3 by default, you had to add the CODEC.