UDP Multicast streaming video to MediaElement

Question

 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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

 Are you sure?  This link says otherwise:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee707325%28VS.96%29.aspx

 

 

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Do you have a link for that sample project?  Not sure where to find it.  Thanks a lot.

Answer 6

Hi,

   This is it.

    http://projectstarlight.codeplex.com/

Best Regards

Answer 7

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?

Answer 8

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?

Answer 9

Has anyone found a solution to this?