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.

Silverlight 2 – Media Player with Marker support

Date June 21, 2008

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 to load the video source. Then back a few weeks ago Tim brought it up to speed for Beta 2 and [...]

Silverlight how-to: Video Player

Date April 10, 2008

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 goal was to build a video player using no custom user controls, but instead leveraging controls styles and templates.  Here is [...]