Comments on: Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress

By: christophe

christophe — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:49:46 +0000

Hi, great stuff, working fine,

thanx a lot for sharing your work,

I would like to add that there is a freeware that can make WMV video conversions compatible with Silverlight (no need to mess up with Expression), it’s called Format Factory, you can google to find it easily,

One thing that could be really nice about your plugin,
is the ability to load or preload several videos in the same plugin window rather than one video for one plugin, & choosing by right clicking which video to look at,

anyway it’s working great like it is so far.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:17:25 +0000

Hi Nathan, would you be able to run Fiddler while trying to save the changes? Once you repro the problem, save the session output to a text file and contact me via the contact form.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:12:00 +0000

I just upgraded to 3.0.5 just to see if that would fix it and I still have the same issue. I cannot change anything in the settings. When I attempt to save the changes, it take me out of wp-admin and back to my main page on my web site. None of the changes take effect.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:52:06 +0000

@lasha – unfortunately, currently it is not possible to easily add new styles and in order to modify the existing styles it requires an extensive knowledge of Silverlight.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:48:48 +0000

@Nathan,

This is strange that it does not save the selected player style. Does it save any other plugin configuration, e.g. player size, etc? Which version of WordPress is it? As a workaround for now, you can try changing the setting directly in the wordpress database. This is located in the wp_options table; the setting name is wp_mediaplayer_style.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:30:50 +0000

We have been using this plugin at http://www.polr.org for a while now and love it. It is one of the only ways I can play my archived streaming content that allows the viewer to fast forward. We stream live using windows encoder and capture the wmv file for archives.

The only problem I have is I cannot change the player style. When I save the change it goes directly to my web site, not back into wp-admin. The changes does not take effect. Any suggestions.

Another feature I would like to find is a pull down video selection that points to a directory of archived videos or someway to click on a link and have it open that file in silverlight. I have hundreds of videos and I cant make a player for all of them. Any suggestions?

By: lasha

lasha — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:53:28 +0000

Thanks for Great plugin
How can add more player styles, or modify it

By: Michal

Michal — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:17:46 +0000

I’am trying to add mms streaming video from external site mms://82.139.8.249/dami
and it doesn’t work, but Windows Media Player can play it. WordPress whit your plugin is hosted on Ubuntu server and I’m using Windows Vista as a client. Can you help mi with this?

Thanks in advance.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:39:53 +0000

Yes, this plugin requires that Silverlight is installed on the client accessing the web page. Silverlight does not have to be installed on the server where web site is hosted.

By: yolla

yolla — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:03:15 +0000

I have windows vista on my 2 years old pc. Do I need to install/download Silverlight or not?