directx with mp3

incin

does anyone know how to play an mp3 with directx sdk.. i have version 8... im wanting this for background music for a game... dont know if that changes anything

dalaptop

You can play mp3s with DirectShow 8.0.
Sunlight, from the Windows Programming board posted this:

An MP3 player, in 28 lines of code (excluding comments):



#include
#include
#include
#include

#pragma comment(lib, "ole32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "amstrmid.lib")

IGraphBuilder *g_pGraphBuilder;
IMediaControl *g_pMediaControl;
IBaseFilter *pSource;
IPin *pPin;

int main(void)
{
// Initialise COM, so that we can use CoCreateInstance.
::CoInitialize(NULL);

// Create an IGraphBuilder object, through which
// we will create a DirectShow graph.
CoCreateInstance(CLSID_FilterGraph, NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC, IID_IGraphBuilder,
(void **)&g_pGraphBuilder);

// Get the IMediaControl Interface
g_pGraphBuilder->QueryInterface(IID_IMediaControl,
(void **)&g_pMediaControl);

// Add the new source filter to the graph.
g_pGraphBuilder->AddSourceFilter(L"x.mp3", L"x.mp3", &pSource);

// Get the first output pin of the new source filter. Audio sources
// typically have only one output pin, so for most audio cases finding
// any output pin is sufficient.
pSource->FindPin(L"Output", &pPin);

// We have the new output pin. Render it
g_pGraphBuilder->Render(pPin);

pPin->Release();

// Start the graph
g_pMediaControl->Run();

printf("Playing x.mp3, press any key to stop...
");

getch();

g_pMediaControl->Stop();

pSource->Release();
g_pMediaControl->Release();
g_pGraphBuilder->Release();

return 0;
}

This might be usefull.

~Andrew Clark