MediaPlayer
Microsoft provides a second control geared for advanced interactive playback called MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer derives from MediaElement, so it exposes a superset of its APIs. Everything discussed about MediaElement applies to MediaPlayer as well.
MediaPlayer is not part of any framework that ships with Windows. Rather, it is a free open-source control provided by Microsoft at http://playerframework.codeplex.com. (There are versions of the control for many other platforms as well.) This is an evolution of the same video player codebase that Microsoft used for the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, the 2012 Super Bowl, Wimbledon, and a number of other massive live events. Because of this, it supports a number of advanced features: many ...
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