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Playing a video in Xna game studio

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This tutorial will teach you how to play a video in XNA game studio.
The videos in this tutorial were in the wmv format

Step One
Add this to the top of you code :
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media;

Step Two
Declare the VideoPlayer and the video to play:
VideoPlayer vPlayer;
Video instructions;

Step Three
Instantiate the VideoPlayer and load the video to play:
vPlayer = new VideoPlayer();
//is the video looping?
vPlayer.IsLooped = true;
//load the videos instructions = content.Load<Video>(@"Videos/1_start_game_instructions");

Step Four
Play the video using:
vPlayer.Play(instructions);

Step Five
Draw the current frame in the Draw method:
spriteBatch.Draw(vPlayer.GetTexture(), new Vector2(0, 0), Color.White);

Notes**
To Pause the video: vPlayer.Pause();
To Resume playback: vPlayer.Resume();