Example, Purchase/Play Video Store video in metro app flow

Question

I was wondering if there is an example for a Metro app of:

1) sending a user to the video.app to purchase a specific piece of content

2) sending the user back to the original app once purchase/download is complete

Is this flow possible?  is it possible to play a DRM video from an app other than video.app?

Thanks,

Answer 1

No, this is not possible.

Windows Store apps can interact with other apps only through well defined contracts such as Sharing. They cannot jump to another app and then return.

A Windows Store app can launch a video file or url to run in the default handler for that app. It cannot specifically choose to play the video in a specific external app.

--Rob

Answer 2

Thanks, Rob.  I'll assume that the user will return on his/her own.  Is playing the video now in my app just a simple matter of looking in the local video library and playing with the MediaElement?  Or will authentication (DRM) get in the way somehow?

Answer 3

An update, I used this code as base to test the flow:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh871377.aspx

Although I can pick the file, it doesn't play in my app example, throwing through MediaFailed:

ErrorMessage "MF_MEDIA_ENGINE_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED : HRESULT - 0xC00D714C" string

Is this a DRM error?

Answer 4

Hello,

We have a code sample that should help you get up and running. Please take a look a the sample and let us know if you run into any other problems.

Simple PlayReady sample for Windows 8 Store apps

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Simple-PlayReady-sample-5c1aefaf

Thanks,

James

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Windows SDK Technologies - Microsoft Developer Services - http://blogs.msdn.com/mediasdkstuff/

Answer 5

Thanks!