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Now that the Silverlight 2 Video Player is available from Codeplex, I wanted to make it a template for Expression Encoder. I’ll attempt to articulate the steps below. It’s actually pretty trivial. In fact in the current incarnation, you have to throw some extra stuff in there you may not need :-). Step 1 – Creating the template folder While I’ve covered this in previous posts and this is also well documented in the Encoder SDK documentation. First you’ll navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Expression\Encoder 2\Templates\en and you’ll see the existing template folders. The folders do not represent...
I’ve seen this issue a few times with people using the Manage Videos portion of Silverlight Streaming to directly upload a video file to be hosted. Now with direct endpoints to the WMV files I’m seeing it a bit more. Let me see if I can shed some light on this situation. First, there is a distinction between uploading an application to Silverlight Streaming versus just a video. What I’m going to discuss here is working with video only uploads. If you didn’t know, you can directly upload just a video and Silverlight Streaming will...
while preparing for the code trip, we have several 'on-board' needs. one of which is a quick method to get our content encoded for consumption by devices and frameworks (i.e., silverlight). we want a smooth method so that we aren't boggled down with multiple tools opening and changing settings, cutting and pasting, etc.
so, inspired by my colleagues post about using workflow to automate, i set about the task. we're going to be making several assumptions along our production, one of which is we know we'll have multiple video/audio sources and that there *will* be some post-edit being done. but once...
i recently got an email from a rails developer who was using silverlight on a site to display high-quality media. what?! you though silverlight was a windows-only technology? blasphemy! you see, silverlight is a client-technology, which means as long as it can be served up to the browser (and the user has the plugin), the server can be your own custom version of l337hax0r web edition or whatever. now, there are advantages of using internet information services on windows and some integration with asp.net, but that's not what this post is about. on to the issue at hand will you...
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i had previously written about creating custom expression encoder templates and integrating them into the encoder workflow (if you haven't read that, check it out, very simple process). my process was simple and followed the "CASE" methodology*.
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basically i would encode a video file to get the output of the encoder template, then blast away all the xaml in player.xaml, and create your own silverlight media player skin. really the only thing you need to know is the 'well known names' for certain controls (the most common of which i outline in my blog post. i've received comments...
remember that feature i was mentioning that is a plugin for expression encoder? you know the one that enables you to publish the output immediately and directly to the silverlight streaming service?
well, how would you like to write your own encoder publishing plugin. perhaps you have a process with a content delivery network? or have some custom process you want to implement in your own workflow (save as an encoder job file, etc.) for ongoing media encodings? james clarke just announced a quickstart guide on developing publisher plug-ins for encoder.
the code looks relatively simple to implement:
[EncoderPlugin("Zip Plugin from scratch","Enables output...
use expression encoder for creating silverlight media applications? want to put them on silveright streaming? frustrated perhaps that you have to create a zip file with manifests and such? look no further!
james clarke writes about a feature just added to expression encoder (via a download) where you can now add 'publish to silverlight streaming' after your encoding job is completed. w00t!
you'll need to get the encoder plugin (assuming you have encoder first) and just install that. the post on james' site walks you through the steps, but it is a no brainer. i'd previously written about customizing your own encoder...
in my previous sample i talked about creating custom expression encoder templates. good times. also jesse alluded to a something him and i have been working on with regard to what he calls "hyper video" and what i've previously referred to as 'timed overlays' in an example.
in going through both of these i found an issue that i forgot to write about (but a helpful commenter reminded me: thanks ernie!) with regard to using the expression encoder templates and asp.net ajax.
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expression encoder uses a model of encapsulating silverlight and the media elements within an asp.net ajax control. because they...
i've been asked recently why i use the expression encoder template code in my samples for media playback in silverlight. simple: free code :-). the templates in expression encoder provide very interesting stub code handling the simple and advanced media playback capabilities already for you. if all you need is a simple mediaelement in your silverlight application, then sure, it's a bit heavy. but if you are developing a media playback integration with end-user controls, you may want to consider it. it provides all the simple play/pause/etc functionality, but also the glitz of volume slider handlers, time thumb handlers, fullscreen...