How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-18-2007 11:28 PM |

Hi

I want to play some video file that I have stored somewhere on Internet (Amazon S3) -

I have the following code -

public void Page_Loaded(object o, EventArgs e)
{
            // Required to initialize variables
            InitializeComponent();
            Uri u = new Uri("http://s3.amazonaws.com/jvaria/MITETC2006.wmv");
            Movie_wmv.Source = u;
            Play.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseEventHandler(Play_MouseLeftButtonDown);
}

void Play_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
           Movie_wmv.Play();
}

But when I click on Play - nothing happens. if I copy the wmv file on my machine and run from there, ie, if I do something like: Movie_wmv.Source = new Uri (file:///C:/Satyen/MITETC2006.wmv); then it works

Any advise how to reference .wmv file from web

Thanks .

Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-21-2007 8:06 PM |

 i just tried your same code and it worked.  in your xaml do you have the Page_Loaded event wired up in the root canvas?  and on the media element is AutoPlay="false"?

Re: Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-27-2007 6:07 AM |

i have the same problem when i make the source points to a file on the pc iam using it works fine. however, if i wonna make the source points to a website it does not work. any sugestions. Thanks in advance.

Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-27-2007 11:22 AM |

I dont know if this is a bug, but it works - upload site to your server and run your site, good luck.

Re: Re: Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-27-2007 1:01 PM |

Hi there

I put the whole thing (including the ClientBin folder) and it is now working - try that and do let us know

Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

06-28-2007 4:52 AM |

Just make sure the video has been loaded before you play it. You should listen for the MediaOpened event - when the event occures the media file haders has been processed already and the file is ready to be played.

Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

07-27-2007 5:15 AM |

I've got a similar issue: when playing a video on my lcal machine, all works fine.

Playing the same video from a web site, which also host the eb page that uses the SL mediaelement, all works fine.

If I load the page hostign the SL control on my local computer, and make the mediaElement point to the video on the web server: Nothing. Not even download. I also tried using the Downloader object, and the video does not get downloaded either (I never get a download progess event back.

Any suggestion??

Thanks

Antonio

Re: Re: How to play MediaElement from Internet

07-27-2007 5:33 AM |

To make things more complicated: if I access the web page from the internet, but I point to the file on my local hard drive,, same result: no playing.

It seems like SL only plays video coming from where the web page comes from..

Antonio