Images and Video in same MediaElement??

[Red_Wizard_Shot_The_Food]

Hi, I have a List<> of URI's that point to either images or videos... What I'm after (in simplified tearms) is getting a MediaElement to show the media in the list one after the other, with video playing to it's full duration (or a pre-determined length) and images being shown for 1 second. Currently I have a MediaElement with it's "MediaEnded" event hooked up to a method that switches the MediaElement source to the next URI in the List. But as default this shows images for ~3 seconds (which I found odd... do images actually "End" like a video does?? and why ~3 seconds??) and then blinks the media element black between each source change. Could anyone suggest a sollution? Thanks.

[Lost User]

You might consider using two media elements. One for images and one for videos. Then just transistion between them. This will get rid of the flash when a video loads. You could also just overlay an image control instead of the second media element.

Cheers, Karl » CodeProject 2008 MVP » Microsoft MVP - Client App Dev My Blog | Mole's Home Page | MVP Profile

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

[Red_Wizard_Shot_The_Food]

Thanks, But that really seems to complicate the control of the process... now I have to monitor the media element playing the video, when it's done check to see if the next item is an image, then set the visability on an image to visible and stop the MediaElement playing the video, somehow set the image to display for 1 second before dissappearing, load the next video, start the play process of the MediaElement again repeat. I was really hoping there was a sollution where I can just play any combination of video and image without any flickering between loads and set the play duration depending on what was loaded so basicly do somthing like this: DurationHit()//Called When MediaElement's current duration is up. { Stop() CurrentItem ++; if(MediaItems[CurrentItem] == "image") Duration = 1 else Duration = NaturalDuration Play(MediaItems[CurrentItem]) } Is this not possible ?? (somehow?)

[Lost User]

Red_Wizard_Shot_The_Food wrote:

play any combination of video and image without any flickering between loads

Not sure about this, that's where my overlaying and transistion idea came from. More of a workaround than anything else. Just a suggestion.

Cheers, Karl » CodeProject 2008 MVP » Microsoft MVP - Client App Dev My Blog | Mole's Home Page | MVP Profile

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.

[Red_Wizard_Shot_The_Food]

Thank you! I sorted it with the help of your answer to my other post :) I made a StoryBoard and MediaTimeline for the MediaElement. Then i used a switch case when reading the List<>... if the current element was an image I set the MediaElement's duration to 1 second and called begin on the StoryBoard and if it was a video I set the duration to the MediaElement's "natural" duration then called begin on the StoryBoard. When you use a MediaTimeline you need to change the source via the MediaTimeline rather then the MediaElement and this seems to solve the problem of the flickering when loading new media :-D

[Lost User]

This solution would make a great article and/or blog post. :cool: Let me know if/when you post it. Glad you were able to get this sorted out, nice work!

Cheers, Karl » CodeProject 2008 MVP » Microsoft MVP - Client App Dev My Blog | Mole's Home Page | MVP Profile

Just a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.