Microsoft Media Platform: Player Framework

New Post: Time display on mouse hover on the scrub bar

Julienv42 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:29:29 GMT

You could use a custom ToolTip if it's when hovering.

Or just a custom element if it's while scrubbing, that you'll show only when in the scrubbing visual state.

Commented Issue: Silverlight 5 and SMF 2.6 [22200]

timgreenfield — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:10:29 GMT

I installed SMF 2.6 and tried to switch the Silverlight Framework from 4 to 5. When I did it wouldn't compile and Visual Studio 2010 couldn't locate the following DLL's.

Microsoft.SilverlightMediaFramework.Core.Media
Microsoft.SilverlightMediaFramework.Plugins.Primitives

When will you be updating SMF to use Silverlight 5? We're looking for a player that supports Trick-Play during smooth streaming.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: timgreenfield **

Those are namespaces within the Core dll so you don't need separate assemblies.

Created Issue: Silverlight 5 and SMF 2.6 [22200]

dcernosia — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:51:24 GMT

New Post: Fading the ControllerStrip in Fullscreen

r0n1n — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:27:17 GMT

I did, but it didn't help because none of the storyboard functionality is available in Expression with 2.6 codebase.

I was able to get the controlstrip to disappear using a DispatcherTimer, but I haven't set up storyboards to fade it out. It just disappears which, for our purposes, is good enough.

New Post: Fading the ControllerStrip in Fullscreen

kalikoi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:21:20 GMT

check this

http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/ux/archive/2011/05/02/building-a-custom-video-player-with-the-player-framework-for-the-web-desktop-and-the-phone.aspx

New Post: Time display on mouse hover on the scrub bar

kalikoi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:57:19 GMT

is there a way to display the time slot when we place mouse over the scrub bar..similar to you tube player functionality

Created Issue: Specification on errors [22194]

thomasmartinsen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:03:43 GMT

I have a media object using playready to valide the users access to the object. When I open the object in MMP I get an exception without any further specificatiion. From Fiddler I can see that I actually get a 403 http error as part of the token validation. Is there any way to get further specifications in runtime on the exceptions thrown by MMP?

New Post: SFM Player 2.6 doesn't work with Silverlight 5

wint100 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:37:10 GMT

I have this working in SL5 after referencing the 2 assemblies.

Regards,

Mark Wint
BEC Ltd

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I gave up on trying to make it work. As far as I can tell there is some bug that must be fixed. For now I'm just using Silverlight 4.

Now I'm struggling with the concept of moving to something that will support the iPad. I rather cut my fingers off than go back to html and javascript programming.

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New Post: SFM Player 2.6 doesn't work with Silverlight 5

tkreyche — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:48 GMT

I gave up on trying to make it work. As far as I can tell there is some bug that must be fixed. For now I'm just using Silverlight 4.

Now I'm struggling with the concept of moving to something that will support the iPad. I rather cut my fingers off than go back to html and javascript programming.

New Post: SFM Player 2.6 doesn't work with Silverlight 5

dgehred — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:33:22 GMT

Anyone get video playback to work in SL5?

I addeded references to both:

System.ComponentModel.Composition

System.ComponentModel.Composition.Initialization

and video will still not play.

New Comment on "New SMF Smooth Streaming Application"

dcernosia — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:41:14 GMT

I followed these steps and got nothing ... the video doesn't play. Not sure if it's loading to the media source into the playlist (if you click on the playlist icon will the media source show?) I'm running this on a Windows XP machine, Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 installed, ran the msi for the SMF. I also have the Silverlight 5 framework on this machine. Any ideas? I tested the media source URL for Big Bunny ... it works.

New Post: SMFPlayer - FastForward / Rewind - 3050 Error

wesreid — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:59:40 GMT

I am using SMF with SSME and have just implemented FastForward and Rewind functionality.

Once I set the StartFastForward and IncrementFastForward, the video freezes and a few seconds later I receive the MediaError 3050.

I have a test asset and it works fine.

The manifest for the asset that is not working has a <Protection> and <ProtectionHeader> entry whereas the test asset does not.

Not sure if that makes a difference, but I can't see any difference.

Both assets show that I have Supported Playback Rates of -8, -4, .25, 1, 4 & 8

Any ideas here???

New Post: Stack overflow when captions disabled with custom captions

Julienv42 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:17 GMT

I've found (or rather a client found) a nasty bug in my players where disabling the closed captions (by clicking the CC button) causes a crash.

After investigating the issue, it's a stack overflow that occurs during measurements to fit text in panels, more precisely, it crashes in CaptionBlockRegion.WrapElement(...) called from CaptionBlockRegion.RenderElementRecurse(...).

My workaround is disabling text wrapping in all my custom subtitle plugins, but I feel there must be a bug somewhere in SMF.

For instance, in the RenderElementRecurse method, there's a test :

if (... && element.CurrentStyle.Display == System.Windows.Visibility.Visible)

That I feel at first glance that should be failing. I may be totally wrong for this property's meaning though.

It looks like the caption rendering isn't properly aware that it should try to render, and ends up in a bad state where the content hasn't got a proper size, thus exploding during the measure attempt.

New Post: SMF Windows Phone Mango

ovais_khatri — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:20:43 GMT

I have implemented SMF by following documentation, I don't have Wp7 device, so I was only able to test it on emulator, but when I run the applicatoin, no video is played, I am doing Smooth Streaming implementation, its just shows the player. I am using Encoder 4.0 for Video encoding. IIS Smoothing streaming encoding is supported on emulator or not?

New Post: Fading the ControllerStrip in Fullscreen

r0n1n — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:04:02 GMT

I've looked at the existing discussions on this topic, but they all seem to pre-date the 2.x release, so they're not really applicable anymore.

I've modified the player so that when in fullscreen the controllerstrip disappears, then reappears on a mousemove event. However, I'm unable to get it to fade again after a time delay. The only way I've been able to make it disappear again is to check the position of the mouse and have it disappear when the cursor moves to the far right of the screen. This isn't the solution we want.

I've looked at the online tutorials (specifically the Channel 9 reference), but the discussion doesn't seem to apply to 2.x because, with all the new abstraction, you don't get the storyboarding options in Blend when editing generic.xaml. I've tried adding the effect in code per the MSDN posts, but what I'm running into is that I have no object to bind the storyboard to. The controllerstrip doesn't have an OpacityProperty DependencyProperty and the player ("this") doesn't have a name property. I've tried registering the name, but the RegisterName method is showing up in any of the namespaces where it's supposed to exist (System.Windows.Markup or System.Windows.FrameworkElement).

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

New Comment on "New SMF Smooth Streaming Application"

niciyou — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:48:43 GMT

sorry what is the media source?

Commented Issue: Error 3132 with OS Lion when using StartPosition [21380]

Julienv42 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:30:28 GMT

As discussed here http://smf.codeplex.com/discussions/267125
While playing smooth streams with SMF 2.5 on OSX Lion when the StartPosition has been set the video will crash with a MediaFailed and an error code of 3132.
This error does not happen if using the plain SSME and setting the Position during MediaOpened like SMF does for this feature. The issue has to be some confluence of properties set on SSME from SMF.
A public repro of this can be found here
http://smfliontest.november.sierrabravo.net/
The source code for the repro here
http://smfliontest.november.sierrabravo.net/SMFLionTest.zip
And a trace file here http://smfliontest.november.sierrabravo.net/trace.txt
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Julienv42 **

A workaround has been proposed in the discussion thread:

"I've tried on the MediaOpened event to change the Position property and it works fine."

Commented Issue: Error 3132 with OS Lion when using StartPosition [21380]

Julienv42 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:18:00 GMT

Has someone found a workaround or patch for SMF on this issue?

New Post: Failure to play when video has multiple streams with same name

SanderSaares — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:46:56 GMT

I have a video that has a caption stream named "English" and an audio stream named "English". This does not play using SMF but plays fine using a plain SSME. As soon as I change the names to be different, it starts working in SMF, as well.

I am not seeing any exceptions in the debugger - the video simply does not play. I can see with Fiddler that before it stops, one or two requests are made for the first fragments of the first two channels (audio and video), whereas no requests are made for the caption channel.

Since debugging does not show me any errors, I am not sure where to dig for a fix. Is this a known issue? Can it be fixed easily?

New Post: Displaying last frame on playlist item change

jr_ferreira — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:01:30 GMT

Hey there,

Due to some project specific constraints, I have to play my contents as a playlist of severak 7 minute items. While the change between items is quite fast (around 1 or 2 seconds) the fact that the player goes black while changing clip is distracting and somewhat disruptive of the whole user experience. Is it possible to keep displaying the last frame of a playlist item while loading the next clip?

Thanks!

Rodrigo Ferreira