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Media Player Command-Line Switches Not Documented

Article ID: 126637

Article Last Modified on 5/4/2005

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows 3.11 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.2
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5

This article was previously published under Q126637

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The Windows, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows NT documentation does not document the following command-line switches Media Player (both for the 16- bit [mplayer.exe] and 32-bit [mplay32.exe] versions):

   /play        play Media Player file immediately
   /close       close after playing Media Player file (used with /play)
   /embedding   run as an OLE server
   <filename>   file or device to open

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