Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9

Posted By: Adam Kinney | Sep 26th, 2007 @ 1:08 PM

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.

Tags: Channel9 Team, EvNet, Silverlight

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ixdatul

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.

Charles

Great job, guys! Smiley

Duncanma

If you'd like to see Silverlight on this site in the near future, check out this thread.

CannotResolveSymbol

Duncanma wrote:

If you'd like to see Silverlight on this site in the near future, check out this thread.

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).

skeezicks

i also did a screencast about some of this a few weeks back -- "cheating" at creating a media player Smiley

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/08/31/cheating-creating-silverlight-media-player.aspx

Stebet

This is all well and good if it weren't for the fact that now i'm getting errors thrown on all the video pages that use the Silverlight player (which seem to be this one as well as the one about SP1 at least) Sad

"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 Sad

Stebet

Also, i seem to be getting the silverlight player regardless of the additional query parameter Perplexed

BlackTiger

In present moment it's impossible to play videos on Channel8 site... Cool

Sampy

I'm not getting any errors on either 8 or 9 on any page.

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.