Using the ASP.NET Futures asp:Media control to play video on Silverlight Streaming?

09-07-2007 8:06 PM |

The ASP.NET Futures control doesn't appear to have support for createHostedObjectEx, which understands the streaming:/ pseudo-protocol used to reference media hosted by Silverlight Streaming.

If I'm writing my own HTML and JavaScript, I can reference the Silverlight Streaming version of silverlight.js (http://agappdom.net/h/silverlight.js), which has support for createHostedObjectEx. Then I can reference media like this:

Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx( { [lots of params here...],
  initParams: "streaming:/999999/Butterfly/Butterfly.wmv" } ); }

 I don't see a way to do that with the asp:Media control. Am I missing something? If not, is this support planned?

Re: Using the ASP.NET Futures asp:Media control to play video on Silverlight Streaming?

09-27-2007 4:36 PM |

There is a VisualStudio add-on in the works that addresses this scenario.
Check out http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2007/09/21/134.aspx to get more information.

Cheers.