Point me in the right direction please.

I am looking to play multimedia files such as .avi in my project but I do not want to use an ActiveMovie Control or any other premade type viewer. I have done it with ActiveMovie3 and would now like to do it from scratch (I need more control over certain things). However, I don't know where to start. Could someone direct me to a good article in MSDN or elsewhere that would give me a jumpstart? It would be much appreciated.

Check out the CAnimateCtrl class. It plays AVI files. Basically, put an Animate control in your dialog and associate the CAnimateCtrl class with it, initializing it, and loading your AVI file, which may be on disk or a resource in your app. Once loaded, you can play, stop etc...

HTH

Nigel