I am new to Silverlight and I'm required to create a video player on urgent notice. (Story of my life) The custom video player should play.wmv files uploaded on another server. I've been trying to find tutorials and it's just nowhere to be found. Can anyone be so kind to point me in the right direction?? I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and C#,. Rich media content display for your line of business apps with Telerik MediaPlayer component for Silverlight. RECOMMENDED: Use Silverlight in the 32-bit Internet Explorer process on x64 systems. Most browser plug-ins (including Silverlight, Flash, Java and almost all ActiveX controls) only work in 32-bit browsers currently.
- To make essentially the player have a flexible use model. I could host the player anywhere and just feed it media to play. I used the InitParams feature of the Silverlight plugin model to enable me to pass in parameters to the application. I wanted a simple parameter ‘media’ that basically was a URI to my media.
- RECOMMENDED: Use Silverlight in the 32-bit Internet Explorer process on x64 systems. Most browser plug-ins (including Silverlight, Flash, Java and almost all ActiveX controls) only work in 32-bit browsers currently.
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