Video and Media

Re: HTTPS SilverLight player playing mms stream?

natoslug — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:17 GMT

Jonathan Shen – MSFT:
As far as know, currently, no such plan now.

Thank you. So for pay-per-view apps, it sounds like we are better off avoiding SilverLight and Windows Media for now if the requirements are for streaming rather than progressive downloads. From what I gathered on the forums earlier, DRM isn't as straightforward under SilverLight as it could be, so that isn't an option either.

Re: HTTPS SilverLight player playing mms stream?

Jonathan Shen – MSFT — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:55:15 GMT

Hi Natoslug,

Actually, to the server, http and https visit are two different visits. Therefore, steaming will be finished in this condition.

natoslug:
Is this likely to change in the near future, or would I be better building out a Flash application and using FLV?

As far as know, currently, no such plan now.

Best regards,

Jonathan

HTTPS SilverLight player playing mms stream?

natoslug — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:19:16 GMT

I have a SilverLight application hosted on a page using the http scheme. The application plays mms streams of video I have on Akamai. When I change the scheme to https, streaming fails. From what I understand, this is standard behavior for SilverLight. Is this likely to change in the near future, or would I be better building out a Flash application and using FLV?

I do not have the option to use http to host the SilverLight application as the player page is in a frameset that uses https for the outer frame, and using mixed-mode means end-users are annoyed by the IE pop-ups.