How to play flash in MediaElement

Question

Hi guys.

 

Is it possible to play flash in MediaElement? I used k-lite codec to play flash content in media player classic, but somehow, windows media player cannot play flash content(weird). The error is "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because your Internet security settings prohibit the use of ActiveX controls."

 

Thanks.

Answer 1

if your intention is just playing flash files you could use the swf-xaml converter http://www.mikeswanson.com/swf2xaml/

 

Answer 2

Thanks for the reply LesterLobo. But my intention is to create a WPF media player(much like media player classic from k-lite codec) that can play almost all types of media available. After installing codecs from k-lite codec, i can play almost all media types that media player classic can play using MediaElement, except flash swf. Actionscript, interactivity, messaging between .net and flash is not a priority at the moment.

 

Thanks.

Answer 3

Use the <Page> -control.

It can display normal html-pages and probably flash-objects as well.

Answer 4

Hi Chimme,

 

Tried that. But the results are not what I expected. The result are limited like when you do interop(winform or win32). Ie no transparency(using wpf container) etc. I have created a sort of library of flash-activex-winform interop in a wpf container. If you want, I can release it to the community so that if anyone want to do flash in wpf, they can just use the library. Currently i dont have a blog or web space. Any invitation?

 

Thanks.

Answer 5

you could post it on the community site here

http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/folders/applications/default.aspx

it would be nice to have your code there

Answer 6

i'd be also interested in testing your library!

Thanks

Answer 7

I am also interested in this library if you are willing to share. Thanks

 

Answer 8

If you need to play flash video files (flv), I like ffdshow codec because it seems to be an all in one, play everything type codec. http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

 

I believe SWF files via media player classic were rendered via a different mechanism than your standard video through directshow and therefore can't be rendered into WPF compositing.

 

There are a couple options for you.  The one listed above with using WPF interop methods...or my shamelessly plugged WPF/Win32 interop renderer, which will give you interactivity with any win32 control and WPF compositing...There are some performance implications, but you can adjust the "redraw" rate of the control to throttle CPU.

http://www.codeplex.com/WPFWin32Renderer

 

-Jer

Answer 9

Thanks for the reply Jer. That is a pretty cool implementation. I don't know if it will do what I am trying to acheive though. I was looking for a way to support swf files on the canvas while maintaining transparency. Is it possible to host the swf file on the canvas without losing tranparency?

Answer 10

It can support the same transpency options you have in normal wpf...If you are talking about a per-pixel alpha channel of transparent pixels in the flash swf, I'm not aware of any interop implementation that will do that...but who knows?  Programmers come up with new black magic everyday!  I suppose if the interop solution made use of layered windows and some hackery it could be done...but now I'm just babbling out loud.

 

-Jer

 

Answer 11

You can host a Flash Player activeX using Crossbow: Embedding and Communicating with the Macromedia Flash Player in WPF

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