Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin for enabling rich internet and media applications. This plugin makes it easy for WordPress content authors
to add Silverlight media content - including Smooth Streaming content - to their blog posts and/or pages using a simple command to specify the location of the media. This player uses the Silverlight Media Framework 2.0, an Open Source project from Microsoft (
http://smf.codeplex.com).
- Extract all files and copy it to your plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/).
- Login to Wordpress Admin and activate the plugin.
- Goto the Settings area and update your prefered default values for width, height and minimum version.
- Standard Width: the default width of the Silverlight plugin
- Standard Height: the default height of the Silverlight plugin
- Standard Version: the minimum required Silverlight version required
A media player can be embedded in a post using a tag of the following form:
[sl-media: URL]
e.g. [sl-media:
http://location.com/to/my/video/file/movie.mp4]
You can also override the default dimensions:
[silverlight: URL, WIDTH, HEIGHT]
e.g. [sl-media:
http://location.com/to/my/video/file/movie.mp4, 400, 300]
If the content is an IIS Smooth Streaming content, specify the flag correctly (requires size to be set also -- last flag specifies Smooth Streaming content):
e.g. [sl-media:
http://location.com/to/my/video/file/movie.ism/Manifest, 400, 300, true]
You can now also specify a Thumbnail preview image:
e.g. [sl-media:
http://location.com/to/my/video/file/movie.mp4, 400, 300, false,
http://location.com/to/my/preview/image/preview.png]
