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New Silverlight 2 Media Player for my blog!

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UPDATE: Get the latest blog media player code from Blacklight, our new CodePlex project!  

I have been meaning to start video blogging (vlogging) for some time. I think you can get stuff across far more simply that way. However, I hadn't gotten around to building a simple video player for hosting on my blog - well, problem solved. I finally got off my backside and made one.

I decided to make my first video blog on the media player itself, so sit back and enjoy.

Introducing the new Video Blog Media Player

You can download the video too. 

The source code for the media player is available from www.codeplex.com/blacklight if you want to change / host it yourself. Thanks to Tim Sneath for giving the example on how to host Silverlight on your blog. 

You could also point to where I have hosted the page (if you don't have hosting yourself) - however, I cannot guarantee the connection or that the MediaPlayer will be bug free.

The player is hosted on this page... https://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html

You need to pass in a source to activate the player - i.e. https://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html?mediaSource=https://silverlight.services.live.com/11264/vlog_200808/video.wmv.

Happy vlogging!

Martin

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    August 20, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2008
    Koen Zwikstra with Silverlight Spy, John Papa on UserControl from Popup Control, Shawn Wildermuth on

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2008
     Yeah RIGHT!!! Download the code from these losers over here. Nah, Nah !!! You're stupid to even download the code!

  • Anonymous
    October 25, 2008
    Hi Martin,  I'm not a developer but I've started a blog on Live Spaces called EventHorizons (It has privacy enabled) a couple months ago. I wanted to post a Silverlight Media Player there to make media presentations which are far more informative than text posts to many people. I found this one you developed but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get the VS Solution from the place you mention in your post. They're using a really complicated team environment or something.  Can you help me get the package you developed so I can use it on my Blog, please?  Thanks for your time and patience my friend.

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    February 07, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2009
    hi mohamed, you can get the source code for this at: www.codeplex.com/blacklight Thanks, Martin

  • Anonymous
    April 03, 2009
    Ok. Finally i was able to find the code I was looking for. Thank you that. Question that is really of interest and couldn't find answer is : Is it possible to build the custom media player with some kind of security to protect the video? Using PlayReady is too costly for me as an individual who is starting up based on past years saving. There aren't any low cost solutions available, so any thoughts or links on that area would be really useful. Thanks,

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2009
    Thanks for this. Came at the right time to make some progress in an assignment I'm doing. Keep up the great work!

  • Anonymous
    December 31, 2009
    Umm... I was able to download the source code. Unzip it, double-click on the "Blacklight.sln" file. Hit f% and it built and ran. I then was able to navigate to the page the video player is on and it ran just fine. Thanks for the code.