I have a MediaElement playing back a wmv that is being streamed live. However, when I stop the stream, the MediaElement goes into a Buffering state and never recovers, and stays this way rather than raising a MediaFailed event or anything similar.
Is there a way to detect when a media stream has been killed by checking for any particular sequence of events? I've looked again and again at MediaElement.CurrentState and all the events that could be possibly raised, and all I get back when a stream is
killed is the same unending set of buffering events in a vain attempt to continue playing a video that no longer exists.
I'd rather avoid using a timeout or polling the server to check if a stream still exists; could anyone suggest a "clean" way of finding out if the stream's been killed? Thanks so much in advance.
Apprently this is a known issue with Silverlight as I hear through my contacts. What I've done to solve this is the following. When the mediaElement enters the buffering state kick off a timer and record the current bufferingProgress. When that timer
ticks (perhaps 20s later), if the bufferingProgress has not changed then consider the live stream to have ended and act accordingly. You are assuming that within that time period of course that a true buffering stream's bufferingProgress has changed even
a hair so it won't be considered ended instead of truly buffering.
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Detecting termination of streamed media
Nov 25, 2008 06:47 PM | LINK
I have a MediaElement playing back a wmv that is being streamed live. However, when I stop the stream, the MediaElement goes into a Buffering state and never recovers, and stays this way rather than raising a MediaFailed event or anything similar.
Is there a way to detect when a media stream has been killed by checking for any particular sequence of events? I've looked again and again at MediaElement.CurrentState and all the events that could be possibly raised, and all I get back when a stream is killed is the same unending set of buffering events in a vain attempt to continue playing a video that no longer exists.
I'd rather avoid using a timeout or polling the server to check if a stream still exists; could anyone suggest a "clean" way of finding out if the stream's been killed? Thanks so much in advance.
trent@zampit...
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Re: Detecting termination of streamed media
Nov 27, 2008 03:52 PM | LINK
We got the same issue.. we would love to know the answer to this question as well.
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Re: Detecting termination of streamed media
Dec 04, 2008 09:33 PM | LINK
Apprently this is a known issue with Silverlight as I hear through my contacts. What I've done to solve this is the following. When the mediaElement enters the buffering state kick off a timer and record the current bufferingProgress. When that timer ticks (perhaps 20s later), if the bufferingProgress has not changed then consider the live stream to have ended and act accordingly. You are assuming that within that time period of course that a true buffering stream's bufferingProgress has changed even a hair so it won't be considered ended instead of truly buffering.
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