Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9
- Posted: Sep 26, 2007 at 1:08 PM
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Mike Sampson, your friendly-neighborhood media-encoding and SCRUM specialist, lives in the office right next to mine. I managed to walk the 12 steps over there and talk to him about what he's recently been working on, mainly
a Silverlight player for version 4 of Channel 9.
He discusses how he was able to reuse the code that comes with Expression Encoder and how, as the developer, he can code the player while the designer
David Shadle can work on the design.
A preview of the player is available on
Channel 8 today and I'm expecting the player to go live on the
Channel 9 beta sometime in the near future.
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Good Vid.
I don't know why, but I was drawn into the Star Destroyer the whole video and had to watch it twice.
Cool features in Silverlight though, hoping to get a copy of Expressions Suite sometime in the near future so I can play around a bit more in it.
And you can see this video in said Silverlight player, too (suprised you didn't link it): http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=344297&silverlight=true
Very cool (beats streaming using WMP hands-down).
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/31/cheating-creating-silverlight-media-player.aspx
"Unable to load media 'mms://mschnlnine.wmod.llnwd.net/and/rest/of/the/huge/url/to/the/wmvfile.wmv'.
I'm getting this error on everywhere the silverlight player is embedded, even on the frontpage
In present moment it's impossible to play videos on Channel8 site...
Can you post your OS, browser, and version of Silverlight as well as the full error text and symptoms you are getting?
I haven't tried other OS's but I am able to play videos just fine on Windows in either Firefox or IE. Silverlight is currently only supported under XP, 2k3, Vista, and Mac OS 10.4.8+ (intel or PPC). Only Firefox and IE are supported on Windows, Firefox and Safari on Mac.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=344306
no seriously sounds good and I cant wait to startup some pet projects using silverlight.
Silverlight doesn't read the proxy settings of firefox?[C]
But the player is good, excellent work!
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Cut and pasted code:
this.control.content.fullScreen = true;
sender.findName("Page").cursor = "none";
this.control.content.fullScreen = false;
sender.findName("Page").cursor = "default";
Honestly, I had no idea Full Screen was even available on this player.
I'll get that in there on our next update.
Nice demo Mike!
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