Windows Media Player in VBA Under Windows 7 1

[KenWK]

Hey guys, I initially posted this on the VBA forum but someone suggested I try this one.

I have a VBA form that I've been using to help organize my pictures and videos. The form contains the media player control and everything worked well in Vista.

When I upgraded the machine from Vista to Windows 7 the audio playback on videos played through the media player via VBA stopped working. The VIDEO is there but, not audio.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much,
Ken

 

[dilettante]

It is kind of meaningless to say "VBA" since VBA is not a full programming language, framework, and compiler but instead a macro language taking on the characteristics of its host. This isn't something you can really create applications in without lots of gyrations and "holding your mought right."

VBA = "Visual Basic (for internally automating) Applications" not "Visual Basic (for making) Applications." I.e., it's a macro language.

What host are you using?

A lot of people get suckered into 64-bit Windows and worse yet 64-bit Office. Much of the Windows ecosystem is still 32-bit in nature, which means you can run into numerous can't-get-there-from-here scenarios. Office-64 VBA can have many limitations.


However none of that might apply in your situation anyway. It may be as "simple" (yeah, right) as a missing codec on your Win7 machine.

Unraveling that isn't so easy through this kind of forum. You might go to a multimedia forum site instead. There you'll find suggestions for tools to use to examine your media files to determine the extra codecs you need, where to get the codecs, etc.

 

[KenWK]

Yeah, its actually CorelDRAW X3. I didn't hold much hope of getting an clear answers, was hoping someone had already come across something similar.

The media player stand-alone program plays them OK, though I'm not sure what that means.

Thanks for the suggestions dilettante.

 

[dilettante]

That's noteworthy though. If the Media Player application plays them properly then it probably isn't a missing codec.

These things can be a real pain to unravel. Some media codecs can have weird DRM strings attached that prevent them from working outside of approved scenarios.