Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback alternative in SharpDX

Question

I want to play a video, and this is how it is done in DirectX:

Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.Video video = new Video(fileName);
video.Owner = panel1;
video.Play();

But I can't find AudioVideoPlayback in SharpDX , the DirectX API for .NET.

Is it supported in SharpDX? Any tip is appreciated.

Answer 1

For playing video in Windows 8.1 store apps and Windows Phone 8.1, the preferred method is using the XAML tools Microsoft provides in their framework that makes this fairly simple. See Quickstart: video and audio (XAML) for more details.

Managed DirectX was released in 2002 [1] and based on DirectX 9. It has been deprecated for a while, which is why for users of managed code, libraries like SharpDX exist to provide a managed wrapper around the unmanaged (C++). In Windows Store and Windows 8.1 phone apps, DirectX 11 is required, which is why Managed DirectX wasn't working for you.