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Nathan DeWitt
Nathan DeWitt

Reputation: 6601

Streaming video & audio in Windows Phone 7

I have an ASX stream that I would like to play on my Windows Phone 7. It appears that WP7 cannot handle client-side playlists, like an ASX file. So what do I do now?

When I break into the ASX file, I see it's actually a mms:// stream with no file extension, so I can't even point to the raw file.

How do I proceed from here? Is there a better option than the MediaElement control that will handle ASX files?

More Info:
My stream in question is audio/video, with WMA2/WVC1 encoding, respectively, running at 640x360. So according to the supported filetypes, the MediaElement control should be able to handle it no problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6338

Answers (1)

Den
Den

Reputation: 16826

You don't actually have to point to the raw file. Even with the stream URL you can receive the data bits (given that the stream can be reached via a HTTP request). I recently wrote about receiving continuous streams here.

Once you have the bits, pass them through MediaStreamSource to get the encoded stream and pass it to MediaElement.

Upvotes: 4

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