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After a signicant delay (previous post August 2024) I have discovered that PlayMovie automatically renders subtitle files (at least the WEBVTT one I had handy)! I cannot find any documentation, however, and I may find this behaviour unnaceptable (some text I may use will be ready-formatted with one ...

Hello.

In my search for how to create a window with a transparent background (to overly subtitles on a video) I've I've just come across your code items SetWindowLong_(), SetLayeredWindowAttributes_(), and constants like #GWL_EXSTYLE, #WS_EX_LAYERED, #WS_EX_TOPMOST, and #LWA_COLORKEY.

Your ...

Hello Erolcum, thank you for the reply. Let me expand on the points I've raised.

I don't have any issues with code itself: the common media players come with a lot of complicated menu settings, but it turns out (and I have ready seen several posts about exactly this issue on line) that there is no ...

After too many hours spent on trying to get well known Win11 media players to reliably output fullscreen to an extended display while leaving play controls and indicators on the main display, even when called from the command line by my simple PureBasic GUI, I was delighted to find PlayMovie and its ...