Get duration of Windows Media Player 12 supported movie types in c# web application

Question

I know it sounds similar to many other questions, but I haven't found anything that applies exactly to my situation.

• This is a c# Web Application using MVC.
• I need to, in the controller, get the duration of a file given the filepath (guaranteed to be local to the server)
• The requirement is to support all media types that WMP 12 supports

Given those conditions, none of the solutions I can find out there seem to work. COM components would require installing WMP to the server(not allowed) or Active X controls wouldn't help on the controller side. Do I have any good options?

Answer 1

Sadly, I never got any answers/good options for this. We pulled the feature until such time that access to the webserver via installing WMP or using Shell calls will be available.