740835 - Support the Play To contract in Windows 8 Metro

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: WinRT, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

'Play To' in Windows 8 will allow us to take audio, videos, and images and stream them to DLNA compatible devices such as a TV.

'Play To' is accessible from the Devices charm.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Attachment: Patch v1.

base code to hook up play to contract. 

TODO:

- Find a way to get current media element from current page (maybe via some meta attribute set on an html page)
- Currently I can't create a MediaElement object with our DX app because it is not XAML.  It throws not the correct thread.  The same code works in a Metro C++/CX app though.

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Unassigned myself, there's some basic contract handling code already on elm for this.  But we need to add code to do the streaming.  There's some really easy MSDN samples showing how to do it with a few lines of code, but that's only for XAML apps.  I think it can still be done with some direct media or other COM interfaces though.

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

transfer widget win32->winrt