SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer for Silverlight?

03-21-2008 4:36 PM |

The asp.net control SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer  that comes with the Windows Live 2008 CTP lets me connect to the Silverlight streaming site and stream video I have uploaded there. I'd like to know if there is a similar way to do this for my Silverlight application so I don't have to use the asp.net control / aspx page perhaps simply using a <MediaElement / > and pointing it to the video stream? But I can't just point to the wmv because of the credntials that are required to access the content. Any ideas?

 Thanks
 

Re: SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer for Silverlight?

03-25-2008 8:55 AM |

Hi,

 did you ever get any response to your request?  I too am looking to host my own MediaElement based Silverlight control, but can't see how to access my SLS content with the Source property.

cheers

Kev

Re: SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer for Silverlight?

04-02-2008 12:31 AM |

Sorry folks, but there no direct way to set the MediaElement to a WMV file hosted in SLS right now. This is because SLS doesn't provide an http endpoint to a WMV file hosted in the service. The closest thing to manipulating WMV files directly from a Silverlight app is by using the initParams as described on http://dev.live.com/silverlight/initparams. It is not ideal, but it does the job provided you know which video files you want to manipulate in your control at initialization time.

Cheers.