Question

I’m pretty much out of ideas here… for everything else, setting the background color to Color.Transparent or setting the TransparencyKey works fine…

I have an mp4 Video which I need to play as a “background” of my form. To do this, I’m currently using the WMP control. My problem: I can’t add any controls on top of it, since they always render a background. Which looks ** on the video…

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try rendering your labels using GDI+:

You can see sample here: (the Using GDI+ for drawing images with transparency part):
http://www.broculos.net/en/article/how-use-transparent-images-and-labels-windows-forms