WPF Media Player causing problem on 64-bit Windows 2008

[Faisal Shafiq]

I have created a windows service in C# using Visual Studio 2008. This
windows
service is meant to synchronize the Video Content information that has been
uploaded into an SLS (Silverlight Streaming Service) account. In order to
get
a video's meta information (such as duration etc.) and generate it's
thumbnail without downloading it to our server, I am using WPF's MediaPlayer
class.

The service works fine in Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit edition.
However, it doesn't work in our deployment environment which is Windows
Server 2008 64 bit edition. The player simply fails to retrieve any video's
meta data and thumbnail generation doesn't work either. I don't have any
idea
what is going wrong here. Event Viewer seems to have no clue about the
problem. Can somebody please guide me towards the problem resolution as i
have already slipped my deadline.

Thanks

 

[Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: WPF Media Player causing problem on 64-bit Windows 2008

You'll want to post this on one of the MSDN forums appropriate to what
you're doing. This is primarily a consumer and IT pro newsgroup, and not a
developer group. The first test, it seems to me, is to try it in Server 2k8
32-bit, and see if the problem exists there. I suspect it will, since my
hunch is that you're using or expecting something that isn't available in
Server 2008, or isn't installed by default. Roles in Server 2k8 are far more
narrowly defined, and only the minimum services are enabled and exposed for
the roles installed.

--
Charlie.
"Faisal Shafiq" <sww@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I have created a windows service in C# using Visual Studio 2008. This
>windows
> service is meant to synchronize the Video Content information that has
> been
> uploaded into an SLS (Silverlight Streaming Service) account. In order to
> get
> a video's meta information (such as duration etc.) and generate it's
> thumbnail without downloading it to our server, I am using WPF's
> MediaPlayer
> class.
>
> The service works fine in Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit edition.
> However, it doesn't work in our deployment environment which is Windows
> Server 2008 64 bit edition. The player simply fails to retrieve any
> video's
> meta data and thumbnail generation doesn't work either. I don't have any
> idea
> what is going wrong here. Event Viewer seems to have no clue about the
> problem. Can somebody please guide me towards the problem resolution as i
> have already slipped my deadline.
>
> Thanks