Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

Silverlight SDK : Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

Silverlight SDK : Silverlight Video Player with Source Code — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:13:34 GMT

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Видео-плеер на Silverlight 3 с исходным кодом

progg.ru — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:12:13 GMT

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re: Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

timheuer — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:10:27 GMT

Just a minor correction :-) -- there are 2 versions of the SL2VideoPlayer (http://sl2videoplayer.codeplex.com) -- one is *very* full featured (captions, markers, etc.) -- while there also is a fork called 'min' which does exactly what this one does here.

re: Silverlight Video Player with Source Code

snoutholder — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:32:51 GMT

Thanks Tim, I updated the post per your correction.

0. Silverlight hardware acceleration leads to performance slowdown in video playback

Jan.Sichula — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:37:58 GMT

Hello everyone,

today I was heavily experimenting with Silverlight 3 video player that was recommend on Silverlight SDK blog for having a SL 3 funcionality. My goal was to produce GPU accelerated player for our high quality (848x480, 16:9, 1500 kbit/s, VBR, VC-1) video publishing needs

The player is mentioned here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2009/05/04/silverlight-video-player-source-code.aspx

I was able to compile player with VS 2008 and SL 3 Tools for VS 2008. However, after many hours of toil, here are surprising results.

The two biggest issues that I encountered are as follows.

1. The accelerated version is slower than non-acceleration. Why and what to do now? I have followed all the advices. Green tint on controls but not on video area seems to indicate that GPU acceleration is on. Also I have the black box with numbers when I use EnableFrameRateCounter=true.

2. The tint supposed to indicate non-accelerated areas is green in this case and not red as documented everywhere else. Why is that?

I have tested on several machines both low end and high end with both AMD and Nvidia graphics. Results are same everywhere and the slower the machine the more of a slowdown with hardware acceleration.

Please help, this is an unhappy situation. I am big fan of Silverlight but I have to admit to being disappointed. Can it be that you rushed out SL3 RTW out too quickly? Why not Beta 2, why not RC? Why such artificial dates like July 10 and not a quality driven release?

Fellow Silverlight programmer,

Jan Sichula

(Slovak Republic)

http://sichula.temelios.sk/ (English website for friends – family photos, videos and newsletter archive)