Playing streaming video in WPF

Question

I\'ve written a WCF service that streams media files. I\'m now writing a WPF application that consumes this service and have only just found out that the MediaElement does not a

Answer 1

You could host a HttpListener inside your WPF app and supply the stream which you receive from your WCF service through an URL which is served by HttpListener to MediaElement.Source .

Other options (though you seem to have ruled them out):

• http://directshownet.sourceforge.net/
• http://wpfmediakit.codeplex.com/

Not sure if this is an option for you, but there are commercial libraries for multimedia including video playback from streams in WPF:

• http://www.leadtools.com/sdk/multimedia-suite.htm#-
• http://www.visioforge.com/video-capture-sdk-net2.html or http://www.visioforge.com/media-player-sdk-net.html