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How do i Load Videos From youtube or stream servers into my aplication??

jonataspovoas — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:01:38 GMT

Hi again,

In my last post, I asked for help building a help window box that would show up when the user click the help button and then click the button that he/she didn't understand.

I somehow managed to make something close to it... But at the time I did, my boss came to me and said "what if we used videos from pn the help to show how the tools work?"

So, I already know how to open a child window and how to organize it to look like what he wants, but I have no idea of how to load a video from the internet to my page. Does anyone knows how to do it??

Re: How do i Load Videos From youtube or stream servers into my aplication??

dotMorten_esri — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:51:42 GMT

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc189078(VS.95).aspx

Youtube is probably not an option. They use Flash and not Silverlight. In some cases they use h.264 video streams, so if you can manage to figure out what stream is uses, technically you can point to this. However the stream endpoint constantly changes, specically to keep people from doing this. You are probably better off generating some WMV files and host them yourself. The above link should give you what you need to know.