how to control Native Media Player Audio/Video from other application in symbian

[rb.chauhan]

Hi ,

I want to pause and resume the media player from other application.

what is best way to control it ?? any help please ..

[symbianyucca]

in general you don't have control over external applications. anyway what is the use case you would need this feature for ?

[rb.chauhan]

I need to pause the Media player when I recieved a SIP/VOIP call and Play again after the call is end.

[symbianyucca]

I think it would be interrupted, if you have MultimediaDD capability with your process and would play the audio with high priority. Not 100% sure, but I would at least suggest trying that out.

[rb.chauhan]

Thanks Yucca !

But unfortunately it dint work even after playing in hight priority.

I have used MMPXPlaybackUtility which is part extension plugin on 5th edition , still looking for 3rd edition solution.

Appreciate any help .

[viktor_m]

Hi,

It was possible on N95/N95 8Gb using Ext plugin for 3rd edition FP1 ver 2.5.
AFAIK it doesn't work on later releases.

Check mplayerremotecontrol.h from plugin. You should be able to pause/play/stop on N95 with
MMPlayerRemoteControl::HandleCommand(TInt);

enum TMPlayerRemoteControlCommands
{
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdNoCommand = 0,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdPlay,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdPause,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStop,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStartSeekForward,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStartSeekBackward,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStopSeeking,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdNextTrack,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdPreviousTrack,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdStartMusicPlayer,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdCloseMusicPlayer,
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdBack,
// EMPlayerRCtrlCmdPlayPause action depends on Music Player internal state.
//
// State | Executed command
// ----------------------------------------
// Playing | Pause
// Paused | Play
// Stopped | Play highlighted playlist item
EMPlayerRCtrlCmdPlayPause
};

I didn't try it for years since that.

Hope it helps
Viktor