Player6.ReadyState (deprecated)
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This page documents a feature of the Windows Media Player 6.4 ActiveX control. We recommend that you migrate your content to use the Windows Media Player 9 Series ActiveX control. For more information about the Windows Media Player 9 Series ActiveX control, see the Windows Media Player 9 Series SDK.
This property retrieves the state of readiness of the Windows Media Player control.
Syntax
MediaPlayer.ReadyState
Possible Values
This property is a read-only Long containing one of the following values.
| Value | Visual Basic constant | Description |
| 0 | mpReadyStateUninitialized | The FileName property has not been initialized. |
| 1 | mpReadyStateLoading | Windows Media Player control is asynchronously loading a file. |
| 3 | mpReadyStateInteractive | Windows Media Player control loaded a file, and downloaded enough data to play the file, but has not yet received all data. |
| 4 | mpReadyStateComplete | All data has been downloaded. |
Remarks
Windows Media Player control changes this property at run time, and passes its value as a parameter to the ReadyStateChange event.
The Play method does not work until the value of ReadyState is 3 (mpReadyStateInteractive) or 4 (mpReadyStateComplete).
Requirements
Version: Windows Media Player version 6.4.
Library: Use msdxm.ocx.
Platform: Windows 98 Second Edition or higher.
See Also