i'm now working on a plugin (vb) that will have following functions

previewing a media file that you are receiving
sending the file wmp is currently playing
sending your playlist as a text
moving on to next media item in your playlist
play
stop
open player

and maybe more

i hope to finisch at least the most important functions of this plugin next week.

The plugin may possibly only work with wmp 9

I hope this will be a plugin which will be usefull for you guys.


goto http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=12602

Usefull!?
ITS MORE THAN USEFULL!!!!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAN! CooL! !


a little off topic: WoW man... Patchou writed in this post! Im happy to write in posts withe Patchou... You rule Man!

finally! your pluggin will be a big hit

thank you, i still have a long way to go, i'm now concentrating on the preview thing, and i hope to complete that one of the following days, pls note, i'm not going to make an avi previewer, i don't have the technical knowledge nor the time to do something like that (i'm going to study multimedia next year, so maybe then ).

We are waiting

I prefer Winamp above Windows Media Player, but . . . if you give a good plugin, thn I might reconsider which one to use

I'm interested...
I've looked through all the documentation and tried everything I can think of, but I can't find any way to do Remoting in it (which you'd need to do to get the currently playing song, before you send it), so i'm having to learn COM in C++ and do it from there, because there is no QueryService to create a valid PlayerApplication and attach it to the WindowsMediaPlayer

If you need advices, you can always ask me, I'll be glad to help people for their developments (I'm missing this since I'm not a team leader anymore )

Patchou

i could have one advice, i never looked at the messenger api properly, doing it now. but i have one problem, is there a way to retrieve the filename of the file you're downloading. Getting the directory where it is saved is an easy one. But i couldn't find out the name using msn messenger. I have however found another way, just looking at the windows file system for the changing file, but if someone knows a way to do it with msn?

I have looked through the documentation and there is no such thing However, there is a function to retreive the download directory...

This would make the download manager plugin even harder.

But, why do you want to retreive the file that's being downloaded?

He wants to make it preview sound files as they're being downloaded (like Kazaa can)

OO... ic...

Maybe this could be a plugin for both the ppl conversating...
U can get the file to be sent from the API. The plugin sends the file name, so u can preview it... I'm not sure if Messenger puts the downloaded files in the My Received Files immediatly afterstarting to download...

And this would be a problem if the user chooses to save the file with a different name (Save As from msn 6)...

messenger uses rtf temporary files to stream the download, it is an encrypted stream

see my post on windows media plugin (where u can download it) i need help on this one

it is impossible to open read or copy the tmp file

in cas i can bypass this problem i still have the encryption problem. i won't give up but it could take a while.

I think it would be easier if u use a separate protocol, your own protocol... like Indy:
http://www.indyproject.org/indy.html

It would make it easier for you...
Indy is "an open source internet component suite comprised of popular internet protocols written in Delphi and based on blocking sockets."

So, you could intercept a file transfer and send it through Indy. Of course, the other person must have the plugin, too.

i'll look at it

tnx