When I think back to where Silverlight was just a year ago, it is so exciting to see how far it has come and how much the community has embraced it. Recently I stumbled upon a nice Silverlight podcast called Sparkling client. Sparkling Client is a podcast by Eric Mork about Silverlight and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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Please note: This sample was made into a Code Plex project and is maintained there. Please download all source from http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer/
Back in April I created a very simple Video Player in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 which Tim Heuer took to a whole new level. In his first pass he added dynamic resizing and initParams [...]

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Please note: This sample was made into a Code Plex project and is maintained there. Please download all source from http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer/
In my ongoing quest to work with Silverlight 2 I embarked on building my own video player using the standard MediaElement and a few of the new System Controls (ToggleButon, Slider and Button). My [...]

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