Developed by Microsoft, the Microsoft Media Platform: Player Framework is a tool for quickly creating multimedia players for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications.
Here are some key features of "Microsoft Media Platform: Player Framework for Silverlight and Windows Phone":
· Modular, flexible
· Plugin API
· Accessibility support via W3C Timed Text standard for closed captioning (DFXP format)
· Support for multiple audio tracks
· Support for multiple SSME instances (used for multicam like in Sunday Night Football app)
· URL frame linking
· Bitrate monitoring
· Support for Silverlight 4 global styling
· Support for the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
· JavaScript API
· Logging plugin
· Support for the Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework
· Documentation
· Media plugins (IIS Smooth Streaming, Progressive Download, Windows Media Streaming, etc)
· Design-time DLL for improved authoring experience in Blend and Visual Studio
· MSI installer so all the right goo gets put in all the right places
· Smooth Streaming data graph overlay
· Stereoscopic 3D support
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· SSME 2.0 support (supports new APIs)
· Silverlight 5 progressive video trickplay support