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Asked: 2026-06-03T02:06:00+00:00

I have a MediaElement that plays video. I have my video stored, in binary,

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I have a MediaElement that plays video. I have my video stored, in binary, in my SQL Server database.

The way this works out for me is that the Silverlight app reads ALL the binary data from a web service. The web service returns a byte[] that I turn into a stream, and set as source for the MediaElement.

The big problem with this is that it needs to read all the data before the MediaElement‘s source can be set. With large videos, this takes a long time.

So, I was hoping to somehow take chunks, and buffer as I go, like any online video player does.

Any clues on how I can actually do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up doing this a bit different.
    I couldn’t figure out buffering from the DB, so we setup a mediaserver, and used the silverlight app, to stream from that instead.

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