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UDP Multicast streaming video to MediaElement

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Is it possible for MediaElement to handle live streaming video sent across through UDP Multicast? There's not that many samples dealing with UDP multicast so I'm not sure how packets can be passed to MediaElement for rendering.
Monday, January 11, 2010 11:16 PM
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Hi,
I did some more search and read about this.
And UDP Streaming is not supported for sure. But multicast streaming is supported now in SL4 Beta.
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/multicast-comes-to-silverlight/
You can see this blog for more info, it even contain a sample project.
Best Regards
Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:50 PM
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Hi,
I am afraid according to the document here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189080(VS.96).aspx
SL does not support UDP so far.
Best Regards
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:45 AM -
Are you sure? This link says otherwise:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee707325%28VS.96%29.aspx
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:47 AM -
Hi,
Sorry for not being clear...
Yes, SL4 beta has some support to use udp.
But still only 4 kind of protocols are supported(http,https,ms-wmsp and unc)by mediaElement.
Best Regards
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:55 PM -
Hi,
I did some more search and read about this.
And UDP Streaming is not supported for sure. But multicast streaming is supported now in SL4 Beta.
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/multicast-comes-to-silverlight/
You can see this blog for more info, it even contain a sample project.
Best Regards
Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:50 PM -
Do you have a link for that sample project? Not sure where to find it. Thanks a lot.
Monday, January 18, 2010 9:58 AM -
Monday, January 18, 2010 8:09 PM
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Thanks a lot, Min-Hong.
Just an FYI for others: make sure your browser's URL autocomplete doesn't add the "www." to the front of the URL (if you type the address in manually w/o the http://).
Now... I've only just scratched the surface of the project starlight code, so I'm not sure about this, but... isn't it using SL2?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:26 PM -
Well, SL says they support multicast, but they made it difficult. Apparetnly, you can't just replace a unicast live stream (e.g. http://foo/live) with a multicast stream (e.g. http://foo/live.nsc).. Anyone have a trick to make this work?
Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:59 AM -
Has anyone found a solution to this?
Monday, January 30, 2012 12:19 PM