ExpressionMediaPlayer to play .mpeg

Question

I'm trying to write a Silverlight application that reads a media file from a database (most likely a .mpeg or .mpg) and play it on the fly using either a Silverlight MediaPlayer or ExpressionMediaPlayer. When I try using Expression Media Player it plays .wmv and .mp4 files but NOT .mpeg or .mpg file extensions. Is this even possible? If so, HOW?!

I tried going a different route originally where I wrote a Service to Encode the file using a LiveJob and then play it on the ExpressionMediaPlayer from the port using mms://localhost:8080 but I couldn't figure out how to use that to Play/Pause the video. It just ran through once and stopped. Any suggestions on that?

I'm using Expression Encoder 3 & Silverlight 4 by the way.

Answer 1

i think you're out of luck, check out this page from msdn.

You are going to have to re-encode the file if you want it to play in Silverlight.