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Playback

This topic applies to Windows Media Player version 6.4 only.

The Windows Media Player control provides two techniques for specifying the media title (clip) to be played. You can set the FileName property, or call the Open method. If the value of the AutoStart property is true, the desired clip begins to play when the FileName property is set to the URL of that clip. If AutoStart is false, the Windows Media Player control does not start playback until the Play method is called. The Open method starts the stream asynchronously, unlike the Play method, which waits for other processes to finish before starting.

The Windows Media Player control provides the following VCR-like attributes for controlling stream playback:

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