HOWTO: Play an .AVI Video File in Full Screen in VB5Last reviewed: August 4, 1997Article ID: Q171981 |
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SUMMARYThis article demonstrates how to play an .AVI (video) file in full screen from Visual Basic for Windows. When you play an .AVI file using the full screen, the color palette focus is set to the .AVI file only. No dithering of colors occurs because there are no other windows in the background to capture the color palette.
MORE INFORMATIONThis example uses the mciSendString application programming interface (API). Your computer must be able to play .AVI files for this sample to work.
Step-by-Step Example
REFERENCESFor additional information about playing an .AVI Video File Full Screen with earlier versions of Visual Basic, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q142389 TITLE : How to Play an .AVI Video File in Full Screen in Visual Basic Keywords : vb5all vb5howto kbhowto Version : 5.0 Platform : WINDOWS |
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