Playback
Of course, the most common thing to do with audio and video is to play it. There is one element for doing this, and it’s appropriately called MediaElement. MediaElement is a UIElement that displays a video (and plays its audio) much like Image displays image content. It plays audio-only files, too, so MediaElement is the XAML analog to HTML’s audio and video tags rolled into one.
You can set MediaElement’s source to a Uri that points an audio or video file, for example:
<MediaElement Source="Assets/video.mp4"/>
When you set MediaElement’s Source, the content is fetched asynchronously, and then either a MediaOpened or MediaFailed event gets raised.
All the Uri options discussed in Chapter 11, “Images,” apply ...
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