Comments on: Silverlight Media Player plugin for WordPress

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.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:18:54 +0000

@danni: I do not think it is possible. The underlying silverlight player object does not support authentication.

By: danni

danni — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:30:05 +0000

If the url of the video is password protected is it possible to display it on our post?

By: ruslany

ruslany — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:47:20 +0000

@bondiblob: Thanks for reporting this. I tried to repro the problem and even though the safari did not crash for me it played the video in a very weird way.

I noticed that you are using mp4 format for the video. I think this is what is causing the problem. According to this (http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/t/70593.aspx) the mp4 format support has been added to silverlight very recently and it looks like it may still have some problems on Safari. It also did not play well for me on Google Chrome. It only worked well in Internet Explorer.

The only thing I can suggest it to re-encode the video into the WMV format (one way to do it is described here: http://ruslany.net/wp-media-player/video-encoding/). I tried to re-encode it myself to confirm but I do not have a software that can decode mp4 format.

By: bondiblob

bondiblob — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:42:39 +0000

oh if you can check

http://bikinistar.tv/

By: bondiblob

bondiblob — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:40:51 +0000

crashing my safari

why would that happen every time i load the page with the silverlight plugin video and it crashes Safari it don’t even load

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:28:33 +0000

Thanks for reporting this. It was a bug in the JavaScript code used by the plugin. If a page HTML contained a tag with id set to "title" it caused the player to fail. The latest update at the plugin homepage has the fix.