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Posted by Nicholas Brookins on 8 December, 2008 I’ve been working full-time with a new open source project, OpenVideoPlayer, available at http://sourceforge.com/projects/openvideoplayer OVP is a cross-platform/technology web video player, with versions in both Flash and Silverlight. The project is sponsored by Akamai, Microsoft, Adobe, and others. The aim is to provide a good starting point for websites that need built-in players. We just released version 2.0 of the Silverlight player last Friday and it’s turned out to be quite a capable solution. The OVP started life as a media framework that Akamai provided to customers to make for an easier integration with their network. It was licensed as OSS for the 2.0 release in order to expand the community and involve other media companies and consumers.
It currently supports direct media links and standard playlist types, as well as MediaRSS feeds for consuming content from Content Delivery Networks like Akamai. We also created the technology behind SmoothHD.com, an adaptive streaming method that adapts Hi-Def content dynamically to play smoothly on nearly any system without buffering, regardless of bandwidth and hardware (within reason). The technology is currently a Microsoft and Akamai exclusive, and works with plug-ins for our player and on the server side with IIS 7.0. OpenVideoPlayer has a configuration page that generates the object tag for you, including parameters for the input source and visual settings.
If anyone has a need for a solid player in Flash or Silverlight versions, I encourage you to check it out and provide feedback on features you would like to see in the future. Upcoming features will include theming and easy re-styling, plug-ins for ad networks, and support for closed captioning. Theming is important to us, so OVP can be adapted to various sites and situations without significant changes to the core player classes. This way future revisions are much easier to roll out to customized installations. The next task at hand is updating SmoothHD.com to the latest player, and developing the theming system as I go. At that point I’ll some more in-depth posts about the guts of OVP. Cheers!
March 6th, 2010 a.t 11:07 pm
Hi, I came across this post while looking for help with fixing Microsoft Silverlight. I’ve recently changed browsers from Chrome to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Just recently I seem to have a problem with loading websites that have Microsoft Silverlight. Everytime I go on a site that needs Microsoft Silverlight, my browser doesn’t load and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I cannot seem to find out how to fix it. Any help getting Microsoft Silverlight to function is very appreciated! Thanks