Windows Media Player and unicast method of access - how to clear the Media Player cache

Gurus,

After you connect successfully and successfully play a unicast stream, it
becomes cached in the player. How do you clear this cache?

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Spin

Spin,

Isn't File->Options->Privacy [Clear Caches] doing the trick for you?
Or do you want to automate it...

I'd like to automate it.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:55:36 -0400, "Spin" <Spin@spin.com> wrote:

>I'd like to automate it.

You can't reasonably expect to be able to empty remote users caches
without their permission - would it make more sense to post *why* you
want to do this, and what it will achieve for you ?

Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Oh, this was to just automate emptying my own Windows Media Player's cache
on my lab test machine Neil. You are right about trying to empty the user's
of course. ;-)

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Spin

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:boqth2dgk3cbpio7rud7tqo0l2b7nie09u@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:55:36 -0400, "Spin" <Spin@spin.com> wrote:
>
>>I'd like to automate it.
>
> You can't reasonably expect to be able to empty remote users caches
> without their permission - would it make more sense to post *why* you
> want to do this, and what it will achieve for you ?
>
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Well I can't think of anything in the SDK which gives you programmatic
access to the player's cache. There are various methods to deal with
the Media Library if it's added to that, such as

player.mediaCollection.remove(item, delete)

But that's only in the case of files you're adding to the library (and
it doesn't delete the file, only the DB entry).

However you might be able to use a method like SendKeys in windows
script host, to send the key sequence required to the player with one
click - It's very low tech, but would that work well enough ?