• French version

I put online a new plugin produced by Regart.net. It is a smooth streaming video player also capable of playing a standard video format wmv, mov or mp4 (when the video is encoded in H264). You will still need to host the video on IIS server if you want to enjoy the smooth streaming. The setup is relatively simple because we provide an administration window in WordPress. It has a preview of the player, you can change the color, the url of video, AutoPlay, size and background color of the player. It warns you when the video is not hosted on your server, about security constraints you may encounter (crossdomain.xml clientaccesspolicy.xml necessary and configured).

I realized the Silverlight side but I did not use the player SMF published by Microsoft. I preferred to use the library named SLExtensions designed by the company UCAYA. UCAYA is specialized in the design of this type of player. In the past, Ucaya has made the players of "Tour de France", "Rolland Garros", "France Television" and so on. What are the benefits you will ask ? It's simple. First of all, the features provided by the library are ultra complete. In addition, it offers the possibility of a Full MVVM conception, the interface is entirely Designable (much better than skinnable). Finally, its design is quite thin as it can instantiate a MediaElement or equivalent for smooth streaming according to the type of URL you provide : ISML ism and for smooth streaming wmv, mov, mp4 (H264) for standard videos. It is therefore possible to make a player at the card and avoid the arsenal of the library SMF provided by Microsoft.