The Media element is a multimedia which supports a large number of devices. The audio devices include the ability to play digitized sound files (.WAV), and to access MIDI-based devices (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). MIDI is a computer interface that is used by most medium to high-end sound equipment including keyboards, sequencers, drum machines, mixers, and so on. The media is also support for playing compact disc audio, video discs, animation players. The Media element supports the file format in AVI, MOV, MID, WAV and RMI.

Please note that Media element can interact with any device accessible through the Media Control Interface (MCI), such as videodisc players and audio CD players, or any device for which the manufacturer has provided an MCI-compatible driver.

The above is a media element with file format in (*.WAV extension).

Playing multimedia files in your program is no sweat-just insert a media element onto a form. The open file dialog will popup for you to input the media file. You can select the media file format in AVI, MOV, MID, WAV and RMI and place the media element onto anywhere of the form. If you want to play back the media file, you can insert the 'Media Player Toolbar' onto the form and control the media element by the Media Player ToolBar.