Today I’ll be doing a webcast with Glen Gordon and G. Andrew Duthie covering Silverlight 2 Video Players. There are a number of topics to cover. Below are topics, projects, resources, and examples.
Major video projects
- NBC Olympics
- Netflix
- Blockbuster
Topics to keep in mind
- Infrastructure – CDN
- MediaElement – Stretching, CurrentState
- VideoBrush
- Streaming vs. Progressive
- MBR
- DRM
- Embedding
Resources
- http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer
- Flash vs. Silverlight side by side comparison: http://www.shinedraw.com/multimedia/flash-vs-silverlight-media-video-player/
- Silverlight Overview Audio/Video FAQ’s – http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/faq.aspx#audio-video-drm
- Create a video player part 1 and part 2
- Video Slider control (implementation)
- Create a Play/Pause button
