Windows Media Player help

[1stOnRamp]

I've made a player that receives a shoutcast stream and plays if fine on the computer.

What i want to do now is if the stream should stop and then restart, i would like the player to restart playing.

so what i need is some kind of timer that will check the status of the player like every 10 seconds and if it has stopped or paused, i would like it the try to start playing again.

[Corey]

Hi. Well the page timer is probably the ticket, but I'm unclear exactly what we're checking. Is it a check to see, "If an instance of the Media Player plug-in object is currently playing" ?

[1stOnRamp]

in Page Properties:On Show i have the following code and it starts the stream playing fine.

Page.StartTimer(10000);
MediaPlayer.Load("plgMSMediaPlayer","http://216.69.164.190:7000");
MediaPlayer.Play("plgMSMediaPlayer");

in Page Properties:On Timer i have the following code and this is where it is not working. If the stream should stop, i want the player to retry the connection every 10 seconds until it reconnects. But it doesnt.

if ((MediaPlayer.GetState("plgMSMediaPlayer") == VIDEO_PLAYING)) then
else
    MediaPlayer.Load("plgMSMediaPlayer","http://216.69.164.190:7000");
    MediaPlayer.Play("plgMSMediaPlayer");
end

[Corey]

Try this in your timer:

if MediaPlayer.GetState("plgMSMediaPlayer")~=VIDEO_PLAYING then
    MediaPlayer.Load("plgMSMediaPlayer","http://216.69.164.190:7000");
    MediaPlayer.Play("plgMSMediaPlayer");
end

[1stOnRamp]

Didnt work.

[Corey]

Hi. It works OK over here, here's a working example attached which restarts if it's been stopped for more than one second. Hope that helps.