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Ram Kishore
Ram Kishore

Reputation: 119

MediaPlayerElement vs MediaElement Which one to choose?

I have gone through the answer provided here for the difference. But I need to just play notification sound for like 2 seconds as an alert. No video or any other heavy loading.

This is the notification sound I am about to play.

ms-winsoundevent:Notification.SMS

The below is for MediaPlayerElement:

MediaPlayerElement mediaPlayerElement = new MediaPlayerElement();
mediaPlayerElement.SetMediaPlayer(new Windows.Media.Playback.MediaPlayer { AudioCategory = Windows.Media.Playback.MediaPlayerAudioCategory.Alerts});
mediaPlayerElement.MediaPlayer.AudioCategory = Windows.Media.Playback.MediaPlayerAudioCategory.Alerts;
mediaPlayerElement.Source = Windows.Media.Core.MediaSource.CreateFromUri(new Uri("ms-winsoundevent:Notification.Default"));
mediaPlayerElement.AutoPlay = false;
mediaPlayerElement.MediaPlayer.Play();

The below is for MediaElement:

MediaElement mediaElement = new MediaElement();
mediaElement.AudioCategory = AudioCategory.Alerts;
mediaElement.Source = new Uri("ms-winsoundevent:Notification.Default");
mediaElement.AutoPlay = false;
mediaElement.Play();

Can I use MediaElement since its a small audio or should I only use MediaPlayerElement as it is the one prescribed by Microsoft? which one is better to use in this case?

P.S.: I need to set audio category as Alerts in order to dim any background music.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 535

Answers (1)

Nico Zhu
Nico Zhu

Reputation: 32775

Can I use MediaElement since its a small audio or should I only use MediaPlayerElement as it is the one prescribed by Microsoft? which one is better to use in this case?

Derive from official document,

In Windows 10, build 1607 and on we recommend that you use MediaPlayerElement in place of MediaElement. MediaPlayerElement has the same functionality as MediaElement, while also enabling more advanced media playback scenarios. Additionally, all future improvements in media playback will happen in MediaPlayerElement.

And it means that the new feature will be developed base on the MediaPlayerElement, we recommend using MediaPlayerElement that could make your app has longer life.

Upvotes: 2

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