I want to streaming flv video in Media Element in WP7. I can play wmv format but flv not. I found this link. So MediaElement doesn´t support flv right? Is there a way how can I play this format?
You are right. WP7 doesn't support Flash Video.
The only solution available is to convert the video. I'd recommend doing this off the device and not trying to do the conversion on the phone.
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Does playing video with Silverlight 5 support the playback of Dolby Digital (AC-3) 5.1 surround sound, or will it always downmix the channels to stereo?
I'm streaming a Smooth Streaming video, but the Silverlight Smooth Streaming Sample Player doesn't seem to support Dolby audio playback.
No with default players.
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189080%28v=vs.95%29.aspx#delivery_method_containers_and_codecs
Quote:
(For WMA audio, the only one mentioning surround sound)
Multichannel (5.1 and 7.1 surround) audio content is automatically mixed down to stereo.
And for Smooth Streaming:
http://www.iis.net/learn/media/smooth-streaming/smooth-streaming-client-readme
Not many details here, supported audio codec is AAC.
See also here:
http://www.iis.net/learn/media/smooth-streaming/smooth-streaming-primer#create_piff
Supported codecs are AAC and WMA/WMA Pro.
Does MediaElement support RTSP?
I've got a stream going and I'm able to consume the stream with VLC Player via:
rtsp://192.168.1.17:554/stream
However, when trying to use Windows Media Player, I'm not able to stream it. Which begs the question, does MediaElement support RTSP?
I'm working with WPF on .NET 4.0.
VLC has comprehensive support for RTSP (through live555 library), while support in Windows Media Player is limited.
You might want to check this article on MSDN: Supported Media Formats, Protocols, and Log Fields.
Supported Codecs
Below is a rollup list of formats codecs supported by the
MediaElement. These encodings are supported regardless of the file
name extension.
See also: MediaElement and custom RTSP stream.
I'm building a Windows Phone 7.5 app that needs to play videos that are pulled from a remote XML feed. Some of these videos are in .mov format, while others are in .mp4 format. The .mp4's play just fine, but the .mov's don't play (just a blank screen). I'm using MediaElement to play these files. Is there any way to make MediaElement play .mov files?
On a Windows Phone? No.
The MediaElement uses whatever codecs are available and installed. Since you can't install your own codecs and only ships with a certain number of codecs, you cannot play them.
The QuickTime Format is just a container around MPEG-4 - it should be very simple to transcode them to MP4 (Which is supported) if you have control over the source.
How can I play a wav file in Silverlight 3.File is on other web site.
You would use the MediaElement to play a sound file. To be honest, I was unable to get Silverlight to play a .WAV file and had to convert it to WMA. But it may have just been an unsupported codec.
Seems like SL2 don't support wav playback. But in SL3 wav playback is support.
I hope this can help.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wavmss
http://blogs.msdn.com/gillesk/archive/2009/03/23/playing-back-wave-files-in-silverlight.aspx
Regards.
I am currently using the Silverlight 2 Video Player to stream videos. I have been very pleased with it but it only seems to stream .WMV files. Does anyone know if there is a good Silverlight video player that will stream other types of video files, especially .MP4 & .FLV? I would be happy to use Silverlight 3 if necessary.
EDIT: Because I like this player and have not found a great option, I am considering encoding files as I receive them so that they will always be streamed later as a .WMV. Unless I determine a good player (I am considering flash at this point), I will have to go down this road.
EDIT 2: Now that Silverlight has evolved quite a bit, are there any new players using Silverlight 5 that do the trick?
Try this link: Silverlight Video Player with Source Code
Just found this Silverlight Media Framework which looks interesting and more robust than the Silverlight Video 2 Player I was using.
Silverlight 2 supports the following standards of video:
• Windows Media Video 7 (WMV1)
• Windows Media Video 8 (WMV2)
• Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3)
• Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, non-VC-1 (WMVA)
• Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, VC-1 (WMVC1)