[Mono-list] Playing audio files

[Christopher David Howie]

On 09/13/2010 11:04 PM, ChrisB wrote:
> Hi, I wish to play audio files from my application running under
> Mono on openSUSE 11.1. I have looked at the System.Media.SoundPlayer
> class but that seems to be very limited in the file formats it
> supports. I have also investigated using wrappers for other
> applications without success.
> 
> My requirements are very basic in that I just wish to be able to 
> play/stop the audio files and nothing more. I do not have a 
> requirement to play any video files.

There are two approaches that come to mind:

* The Banshee approach.  There is a library written in C that provides
the glue between Banshee and GStreamer, an open-source library that can
(among a wealth of other things) play sound files.  The glue library is
the only one that you should P/Invoke, and it will need to be compiled
for each platform.  (Windows support for GStreamer can be tricky.)

* The MPlayer approach.  I do not know much about this personally,
having spent much more time hacking on the Banshee library.  But I've
heard from others that you can embed an MPlayer instance within your
application with relatively little effort.  I don't recall whether this
is a cross-platform solution or not.

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