Windows Media Player 11 SDK Connecting to Windows Media Player (deprecated) 

Connecting to Windows Media Player (deprecated)

This page documents a feature that may be unavailable in future versions of Windows Media Player and the Windows Media Player SDK.

When attempting to play content containing an arbitrary data stream, Windows Media Player automatically connects to rendering plug-ins that have been installed and properly registered. Rendering plug-ins must call IWMPMediaPluginRegistrar::WMPRegisterPlayerPlugin to create the registry entries necessary to allow Windows Media Player to recognize the plug-in and to list it on the Plug-ins tab of the Options dialog box. To remove the registry entries created by IWMPMediaPluginRegistrar::WMPRegisterPlayerPlugin, the plug-in calls IWMPMediaPluginRegistrar::WMPUnRegisterPlayerPlugin.

See Also

• Rendering Plug-in Developer Overview (deprecated)