I have used a lot WMP 9 control embeded in html pages for playing audio/vedeo files with closed captions in smi file. In Win XP everything works fine, with Vista problem start and now in Windows 7 and WMP 12 I can play only mid (karaoke) for audio file types and avi for video file types (with VobSub filter installed). Even with video in wmv format WMP 12 will not show closed captions but when I convert same video in avi format WMP 12 will proper show closed captions in smi file (because of DirectShow filter), Is there CC filter from Microsoft or something else which will enable WMP 12 to show closed captions when playing video in wmv or mp4 format. Same thing for audio. If playing midi (mid or kar extension) there will be CC (in karaoke style) but if audio is in wav of mp3 format then nothing.
All I want to know is did Microsoft abandoned SAMI support in WMP 12 control in favor of HTML5 audio/video tag and WebTTT text format for Closed Captions. Even samples for Microsoft official pages doesn't work for me (and other people from my country). Is this somehow relevant? I don't think so. Maybe again some security patch made unexpected things but then what is a workarround to make it work again? Can someone please give me a link to some pages where video is in wmv format and embeded WMP 12 control shows CC which are in sami text format.