Question

I am trying to figure out how to close my application when the video that the form plays stops playing. Currently, the user clicks a button to bring up Form2. The control for the video is set to force the video full screen, and start playing from the beginning of the video. I am using axWindowsMediaPlayer to provide the video. I am also a complete neophyte when it comes to C#.

How would I get my application to close when the video stops playing?

Answer 1

You need to detect when the media has ended, here is a tutorial on: “Detect the End of Media – axWindowsMediaPlayer”. Then you need to call Close(); to close the form you are currently playing the media from.

Example (snippets from msdn):

// Subscribe to the Play State Change event
player.PlayStateChange += 
  new AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_PlayStateChangeEventHandler(player_PlayStateChange);

Then you need the event handler that can look like this:

private void player_PlayStateChange(object sender,
                                  AxWMPLib._WMPOCXEvents_PlayStateChangeEvent e)
{
    // 8 = Media Ended
    if(e.newState == 8) { Close(); }

}