Silverlight Media Player

I've installed a media player that uses Microsoft's Silverlight. Silverlight is a browser plug-in that much the same like its counterpart Flash bridges the gap between media and different platforms running different browsers. It's compatible on both the Windows and Mac platform and many browsers including IE, FF...etc. File support includes WMV, WMA and MP3 regardless of platform, browser or whatever codecs you have installed. In other words it should just work.

If you are using a *nix platform there is a open source version but I do not know what the status of it is, you can find documentation here:
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight.

If a Silverlight icon appears below in the sample video or audio you do not have the plug in installed. You can click the icon to install it, the download is pretty small and installation should be seamless. If you do not want to install the plug-in there is a hard link to the files still available so you can download the files and view/listen on the application of your choice.

Any files uploaded with a WMV, WMA or MP3 extension will be automatically embed in the Silverlight player. Note the following file limits:

WMA & MP3

• 5 MB's
WMV

• 50 MB's

Note that WMV and WMA files must be valid files, e.g, if you're using a product other than Windows Movie Maker or Windows Media Encoder to create the files they may not work but I'll get around to testing that shortly.

The player itself is not a Microsoft Product and can be downloaded here for free for use on your own site or for small licensing fee if it's a commercial site:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player. The following is a brief overview, note this is picture and not the player... don't try clicking buttons :

1. Play/Pause Button
2. How much of the video has played.
3. Slider bar to move around the video. Note that this is not a streaming server
   so you will have to wait until the video fully downloads to utilize the slider.
4. How much of the video is left to play.
5. Full Screen Mode, hit escape to get out of full screen mode.
6. Volume control/Mute

I'll be adding a tutorial on how to get the biggest bang for your buck encoding WMV when i get a chance. Here's a couple of samples:

I forgot to note that the time to upload a file is not unlimited, the page will time out after 16 minutes. If you're on a slower DSL connection or Dial-up you may not be able to upload the file within the time limit. How long it takes to uplaod a file depends on the file size and the speed of your connection so I really can't give an exact number.

Does the audio file work above?

markviii wrote:I just installed the moonlight player firefox add-on on my Linux machine, works good with no tweaking.

In the words of Mr. Burns . Now all I need to find out is if the "bastard" WMV files not made by a MS product work.

Hmmm strangely there seems to be a bug in this for those using IE, stange because Silverlight is MS product.

I'm checking this with IE and I don't see the player for the two videos embedded above and just the one for the audio however in FF its working fine.

Anybody else with IE seeing the two videos?