Create WMPlayer Playlist in VBA

joshuafournier

joshuafournier

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Good Morning,

I am trying to write a code to Open Windows media player, play an .mp4 in fullscreen. The below code works perfect for a single file (substituting the .mp4 with the file name). I have many buttons with videos and need to click different buttons to watch different videos.

what I would like is to have the macro to just loop through every .mp4 in the folder.....looked around and tried many changes.... any help would be appreciated!

Thank You



VBA Code: 
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
FileToPlay = """H:\02 Images\Drone Mini3 Pro\*.mp4"""
    Shell "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer /play /fullscreen " & FileToPlay

End Sub
 

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At this moment FileToPlay contains text instaed of list of mp4
 
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Try this:
VBA Code: 
' -------------------------------------
Function getFileList(Path As String, Optional FileFilter As String = "*.mp4*", Optional fso As Object, Optional list As Object) As Object
Dim BaseFolder As Object, f As Object
    If fso Is Nothing Then
        Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set list = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList")
    End If
    If Not Right(Path, 1) = "\" Then Path = Path & "\"
    If Len(Dir(Path, vbDirectory)) = 0 Then
        MsgBox Path & " not found"
        Exit Function
    End If
    Set BaseFolder = fso.GetFolder(Path)
    For Each f In BaseFolder.SubFolders
        getFileList f.Path, FileFilter, fso, list
    Next
    For Each f In BaseFolder.Files
        If f.Path Like FileFilter Then list.Add f.Path
    Next
    Set getFileList = list
End Function
' -------------------------------------
Function GetFilenameFromPath(ByVal strPath As String) As String
    If Right$(strPath, 1) <> "\" And Len(strPath) > 0 Then
        GetFilenameFromPath = GetFilenameFromPath(Left$(strPath, Len(strPath) - 1)) + Right$(strPath, 1)
    End If
End Function
' -------------------------------------
Sub CreatePlayListFromFolder()         'this is main macro ! assign to button or just run
    Dim f As Variant, fileList As Object
    Dim Temp As String
    Dim MyList As String
    Dim counter As Integer: counter = 0
    Set fileList = getFileList("H:\02 Images\Drone Mini3 Pro")    'this is your folder to get mp4 from
    For Each f In fileList
        Temp = Temp & "<media src=""" & f & """/>" & vbCrLf
        counter = counter + 1
    Next
    Call MakeAFile(Temp, counter)
    Shell "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer /play /fullscreen " & ThisWorkbook.Path & "\test.wpl"
End Sub
' -------------------------------------

Sub MakeAFile(fileList As String, xCounter As Integer)
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set a = fs.CreateTextFile(ThisWorkbook.Path & "\test.wpl", True)
a.WriteLine ("<?wpl version=""1.0""?>")
a.WriteLine ("<smil>")
a.WriteLine ("<head>")
a.WriteLine (" <meta name=""Generator"" content=""Microsoft Windows Media Player - 11.0.5721.5145""/>")
a.WriteLine ("<meta name=""ItemCount"" content=""" & xCounter & """/>")
a.WriteLine ("<title>Test</title>")
a.WriteLine ("</head>")
a.WriteLine ("<body>")
a.WriteLine ("<seq>")
a.WriteLine (fileList)
a.WriteLine ("</seq>")
a.WriteLine ("</body>")
a.WriteLine ("</smil>")
a.Close
End Sub
' -------------------------------------
 
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