The asp.net control SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer  that comes with the Windows Live 2008 CTP lets me connect to the Silverlight streaming site and stream video I have uploaded there. I'd like to know if there is a similar way to do this for my Silverlight application so I don't have to use the asp.net control / aspx page perhaps simply using a <MediaElement / > and pointing it to the video stream? But I can't just point to the wmv because of the credntials that are required to access the content. Any ideas?

 Thanks
 

Hi,

 did you ever get any response to your request?  I too am looking to host my own MediaElement based Silverlight control, but can't see how to access my SLS content with the Source property.

cheers

Kev

Sorry folks, but there no direct way to set the MediaElement to a WMV file hosted in SLS right now. This is because SLS doesn't provide an http endpoint to a WMV file hosted in the service. The closest thing to manipulating WMV files directly from a Silverlight app is by using the initParams as described on http://dev.live.com/silverlight/initparams. It is not ideal, but it does the job provided you know which video files you want to manipulate in your control at initialization time.

Cheers.