Windows media player 9 labview 7

I'm having problems with this, just as some other people have. After looking through the MSDN library, it seems all you need to do is place the Windows Media Player object in a front panel ActiveX control. Then on the block diagram, wire the object to a property node. Finally, wire the path to the URL property. This should load the file and automatically play it. Well, I've tried this with several different files. With all files, the video plays for the correct amount of time, but no picture shows up in the control on the front panel!
What's interesting is that if I place an older version of the control (6.4) on the front panel (which I could only do by copy-paste from an example someone posted here - it's not available i
n the Select Active X object box) and wire the path to the FileName property, it works perfectly.
I've attached an example showing this. Place the path to a video (I'm using .avi files) in the path control and run the vi.
Any ideas?
Dave.
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David Kaufman
LabVIEW Certified Developer
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WMP_test.vi ‏37 KB

I have version 9 also and here is a VI that works for me. I cannot remember if I got it from this forum or from LAVA but anyway this might work for you.
Joe.
"NOTHING IS EVER EASY"
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show_video.vi ‏88 KB

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