vb net windows media player current position

The reason i was interested in a solution involving overlaying a control (such as a label that supports transparency) is so that I can provide dynamic content over the video. I really appreciate your help thus far but.and maybe i wasnt clear enough when i first asked the question While the forms opacity was visually affected, it only affected the border of the windows form and you still couldnt see the Video underneath the form.

and another to open on top of that form with its opacity set < 1 so that I would be I then tried just adding myLabel to the same container form of the MediaPlayer control This doesnt give the desired effect and i cant see the video playing underneath myLabel as i would expect from setting the backcolor to a transparent color (m yLabel) //where mylabel is a label with backcolor set to (125, Color.whit e) MediaPlayer.windowlessVide o = true //also tried false Heres what i have already tried (all involve hosting the ActiveX control in a windows form) This is also a Windows Form project so please no Web Form related answers (ie web page embedding). Please note also that this is a C# project so I would highly prefer answers in C# although I would also be willing to accept answers in VB.Net if you are not familiar with c# syntax. One possible way may be overrideing the onPaint() method of a label and displaying a gdi+ pregenerated bitmap containing the text. Preferably I would like to see a method that would also enable to me to display images transparently over Media Player. ++ Basically what I want is the type of effect you see on tv every day where text is dispayed transparently over the video content that you are watching. What I cant seem to be able to do is to be able to get any type of control to show transparently over the top of the MediaPlayer control. I am in the process of trying to overlay a control (any that will support transparency i would think should work) over the top of the Windows Media Player 9 ActiveXĬontrol (currently contained in a Windows Form).

Vb net windows media player current position