Yesterday I completed the first version of Closed Captioning support for the Silverlight 2 Video Player on CodePlex. It definitely in an alpha phase, but with some polish it should be reliable and more usable. Here is an image of how the captions are being displayed.
In this first version I made a decision to display closed captioning when the volume is muted, but with the right visualization we should be able to find a nice place for a ToggleButton. Here is a list of a few other things I... Read Full Story
Last night Microsoft released a Hotfix for Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The update is just over 6.4MB and is said to include fixes for the following:
This update for Microsoft Silverlight 2 includes stability, media streaming, and auto-update improvements as well as improved support for Firefox 3.
Here is a link to a full description of the update.
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For those of you who interact with me professionally, you know that I am a Director at Terralever, an Interactive Marketing company in Tempe Arizona. Selfishly I think we are amazing at what we do and deserve a little recognition. Ranking Arizona is the outcome of the largest business opinion poll in Arizona. Voting has begun for ‘Ranking the Best of Arizona Businesses’ and Terralever would love to have your vote this year for us in the Internet Marketing category. We were #4 last year and... Read Full Story
Not sure where I stumbled on it, but recently I watched video online where as the video was playing, a banner ad on the same page changed as the context of the video changed. I was intrigued by the potential this technique had in interactive marketing. As I was watching the video I was envisioning a character picking up a can of Pepsi and at that moment a corresponding banner ad somewhere else on the page switching to an ad for Pepsi. This could be a very powerful way to create interactive... Read Full Story
As part of the ongoing evolution of our Open Source Silverlight Video Player on CodePlex, I added the ability to asynchronously load a set of TimeLineMarkers from an XML document. The goal was to allow users a choice between encoding there video with markers or defining those markers in an external xml file. What I thought would be a pretty trivial task, proved to be an interesting challenge. Here is a snapshot of the Xml format.
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I am very excited to say that today I received an email from Microsoft informing me that I have been selected as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2008. I am not sure I genuinely deserve the honor, but I am very excited for the recognition. My selection is within Client App Dev which affords me the opportunity to remain focus on technologies like WPF and Silverlight.
For those that know me personally, I am extremely passionate about software development and owe my... Read Full Story
Reading through the Silverlight.net forum I still see a ton of people struggling with how to load an image procedurally. I thought it would be beneficial to included a quick sample of four different ways you can set the Image.Source property within Silverlight 2.
Image 1 - Resource Loaded via XAML - The easiest and most common way to load an image is to include the image in your project and set its "Build Action" to Resource. This will embedded the image within the primary assembly... Read Full Story
Yesterday Tim Heuer made a great suggestion that we submit our collaboration on a Silverlight 2 Video Player as Open Source to CodePlex. You can now find the latest source at http://www.codeplex.com/sl2videoplayer. As we find any “undocumented features” or add new and exciting ehancments we will push these up to CodePlex.
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