Comments on: Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress

By: steven

steven — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:05:09 +0000

Great idea.. but how to I allow more then a 2mb file? Most of my clips would be closer to 10 to 15 mb.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:41:15 +0000

Hi Claudia, Please take a look at the updated instructions here: http://ruslany.net/wp-media-player/. The settings page for the plugin are in the different location now.

Regarding installing Silverlight. Yes, anybody who wants to watch video will have to install Silverlight on their machine. There is no way around that unfortunately.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:48:28 +0000

Hi ruslany, thanks for the plugin! I am using wordpress 2.9, but could install the plugin, I don’t see it in the settings though.
When I use the mediaplayer tag a banner come up on my webpage saying “Install Microsoft Silverlight”.
Does everybody who wants to see my video need to download that Silverlight?

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:03:34 +0000

Hi James, no, the plugin is not supposed to do that. That functionality is not implemented.

By: James Hannan

James Hannan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:33:18 +0000

Hi Ruslany
is the plugin supposed to say “click here to download”.
You can see the video at http://dualnetworking.com/blog/did-you-miss-the-recent-webinar/

thanks for everything

James

By: Karen Furst

Karen Furst — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:14:10 +0000

Thank you so much – this saved me! I had a 9mb file to upload with a server max of 7mb. http://www.pataxhelp.org/pro-bono/

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:43 +0000

@say7a: yes, it indeed does not work for this url. The Silverlight media element fails to open this file, even though Windows Media Player can play it. The media player raises exact same error as described in this forum thread: http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/t/15407.aspx. Please try enabling WMS Http Service Control Protocol in your Windows Media service as suggested in that forum thread.

By: say7a

say7a — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:57:19 +0000

first , thx 4 the plugin, but i have a little problem , in adding mms streaming video from external site , by adding this code :

[mediaplayer src=mms://media3.sonara.net/asi/asi_118.wmv]

but it`s not working

am i do it in the wrong way ? please help me

and thanks in advance

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:33:53 +0000

@leon: the plugin is supposed to work with 2.9. My site is running on WP 2.9 and the plugin works fine.

Can you give the URL of the page on your site that has the player and I will investigate more? You can use the contact form to send me the url if you do not want to share it publicly.

By: leon

leon — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:54:22 +0000

Hi,
Installed the 2.9 WordPress and this plugin. (Said compatible up to 2.8 so tried it on the latest 2.9 edition). Ok, I downloaded one of the WMV SQL tutorials from microsoft and tried in the player. I get error that the file does not exist or that it is encoded incorrectly. OK, I tried a couple other wmv files and the same error. Then I verified the address by downloading the file from the location specified in the ‘media,,’ tag over the internet. Same error. This must be an error that was introduced by the latest wordpress version. Have you tested on the latest version? Are there any plans to upgrade? What timeframe is planned if the upgrade is coming? BTW: I appreciate and thank you for your efforts and your contribution to independent web development.