- 1 year ago
PowerShell Windows Media Overlay
In PowerShell, you can use the Windows Media Player COM object to control Windows Media Player and display a media overlay on the screen. Here's an example script that demonstrates how to create a media overlay using PowerShell:
powershell# Create a Windows Media Player COM object
$mediaPlayer = New-Object -ComObject "WMPlayer.OCX"
# Load a media file
$mediaPlayer.URL = "C:\Path\To\Your\Media\File.mp4"
# Set the media overlay text
$overlayText = "Media Overlay Text"
$mediaPlayer.CurrentMedia.getItemInfo(2) | ForEach-Object {
$_.Name = $overlayText
}
# Enable the media overlay
$mediaPlayer.enableOverlay = $true
# Start playing the media
$mediaPlayer.controls.play()
# Wait for the media to finish playing
while ($mediaPlayer.playState -ne 1) {
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500
}
# Disable the media overlay
$mediaPlayer.enableOverlay = $false
# Clean up the media player object
$mediaPlayer.close()
$mediaPlayer = $null
In this example:
The script creates a new instance of the Windows Media Player COM object using the
New-Object
cmdlet.It sets the
URL
property to the path of the media file you want to display.The script sets the
Name
property of the media item to the desired overlay text. ThegetItemInfo(2)
method retrieves the media item's property collection, and theForEach-Object
loop updates theName
property.It enables the media overlay by setting the
enableOverlay
property to$true
.The script starts playing the media using the
controls.play()
method.It enters a loop to wait for the media to finish playing. During this time, the media overlay will be displayed on the screen.
After the media finishes playing, the script disables the media overlay by setting
enableOverlay
to$false
.It closes the media player object and cleans up by setting
$mediaPlayer
to$null
.
You can modify this script to suit your specific needs, such as changing the media file path and customizing the overlay text. Save the script with a .ps1
file extension (e.g., media_overlay.ps1
) and run it in a PowerShell environment to display the media overlay using Windows Media Player.