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Michael Scherotter just posted a great sample of creating Netflix style ‘zoetrope’ player thumbnails in Silverlight.
His sample uses the latest version of the Silverlight Media Framework that is posted at http://smf.codeplex.com, and Expression Encoder 3.0.
We are looking into adding in support for embedded "Zoetrope” tracks to the Smooth Streaming Format SDK and Silverlight Media Framework in a later release.
Demo: http://xmldocs.net/smf
Source Code: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SMFThumbnailScrub
One of my favorite Silverlight developers (who is working on our Rough Cut Editor project ) Ezequiel Jadib who works at SouthWorks in Buenos Aires posted an awesome article on how to start, stop, and shutdown smooth streaming publishing points.
He did a great job of digging through the API in Reflector and figuring things out quickly.
The nice part about this is that we had a scenario on one of our test servers where we wanted to constantly loop a video on a publishing point so that it appeared to be a Live stream (since in these economic times we were too cheap to set up a live encoder). So E-Z (I call him that because he makes my life easy) used the tools in the Smooth Stream SDK to play back a 10 minute clip and restart the publishing point infinitely.
