CPS613	VB .NET Techniques and References
	MultiMedia

Table of Contents

• Playing Animated GIFs
• Playing audio

• If you want to see the animation, store the animated gif in the Image property of the ImageBox.
• If you just want to see the first still picture, store the animated gif in the BackgroundImage property instead.

Playing audio

• .NET handles .wav files much better than other audio formats. You can convert other formats to WAV using the free Audacity Audio Editor.

• The My.Computer.Audio class provides methods that work reasonably well if all you want to do is to start and stop playing a sound clip.

  Alternately you can try the Media.SoundPlayer class.
  If you get a "corrupted header" run-time error, try the following: assuming that your music is stored in the variable mymusic, put the statement

  	mymusic.Stream.Position = 0
  

  before invoking the a play method. This will reset the player to the beginning of the piece.