Hello, I'm still banging my head against unsolved problem. I'm still trying to get control of Windows Media Player through Perl and OLE. I cannot find any easy docs on this matter, so just have to try a lot. I wonder if anyone is willing to help me out - I need to specify file, get fullscreen video and at the end stop. My code (I know it's ugly) - I get About box but no video at all: 
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $player= Win32::OLE->new('MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer')
    or die Win32::OLE->LastError();
$player->{'Autostart'} = Variant(VT_BOOL, 1)  or die Win32::OLE->LastE
+rror();
$player->{'FileName'} = "C:\\d\\media\\video\\Maratonci.avi" or die Wi
+n32::OLE->LastError();
print "FileName = $player->{FileName}\n";
sleep(5);
$player->AboutBox;
sleep(5);
$player->Invoke(Play) ;

#$player->Play or die Win32::OLE->LastError();
sleep(30);
$player->Quit() or die Win32::OLE->LastError();

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