Silverlight Video Player updated to display external bookmarks

Date August 4, 2008

Last week someone requested a new feature to the Silverlight 2 Video player on CodePlex that would allow users to create an external list of “bookmarks”, that would link to a specific marker or moment in playback.  The idea would be to have a series of links outside of Silverlight, that once clicked,playback would jump [...]

Silverlight Video Player updated to display Closed Captioning

Date July 19, 2008

Yesterday I completed the first version of Closed Captioning support for the Silverlight 2 Video Player on CodePlex.  It definitely in an alpha phase, but with some polish it should be reliable and more usable.  Here is an image of how the captions are being displayed.
In this first version I made a decision to display [...]

Asynchronous loading of TimelineMarkers for Silverlight Video Player

Date July 3, 2008

As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document.  The goal was to allow users a choice between encoding there video with markers or defining those markers in an external xml file.  What I [...]

Silverlight 2 Video Player pushed to CodePlex

Date June 24, 2008

Yesterday Tim Heuer made a great suggestion that we submit our collaboration on a  Silverlight 2 Video Player as Open Source to CodePlex. You can now find the latest source at http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer.  As we find any “undocumented features” or add new and exciting ehancments we will push these up to CodePlex.