Probably too early to worry about WPF/E yet. Assuming some people actually install the plugin once its released in a non-beta version, WPF/E should make it quite easy to add hyperlinks etc to wmv files.
Well to put it more accurately, wpf/e is to wmv what a flash player is to a flv file. WPF/E wont actually change your wmv file at all, it can just wrap round it in the browser instead of using the windows media browser plugin. So thats pretty much the same as how a swf file is used to play a flv video. The link magic will happen in the WPF/E or swf, rather than the wmv or flv video. Where it will be easier than flash is that wpf/e files are xml so its easy to manually create/edit them or generate them via a server script, as they are just text. It should therefore be rather easy for thousands of different wpf/e video players to appear and be shared and changed by people, although the actual functionality available isnt as rich as flash, it should serve the purposes being discussed on this thread quite well, for people using wmv format videos. The only big issue is whether this stuff catches on, it is another thing users have to download, and its also only really useful in the browser, so its not going to be a good link solution for users who watch your videos in an offline aggregator. Darn, now that Ive managed to get my hands on a nokia N95 (yippee), Im having to look at all these format issues again, because its so ideal downloading stuff straight to the phone via wifi, but only a few formats will work well that way. At this stage I guess I shoudlnt hold out much hope that theres any hyperlink-in-video solution that will work on that mobile platform? Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Elbows, should we put something in the wiki about WPF/E or is it too > early? >
