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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:16:38+00:00

I have code like this: MediaElement me = myPlayer.MediaElement; WriteableBitmap wb = new WriteableBitmap(me.NaturalVideoWidth,

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I have code like this:

            MediaElement me = myPlayer.MediaElement;
            WriteableBitmap wb = new WriteableBitmap(me.NaturalVideoWidth, me.NaturalVideoHeight);
            wb.Render(me, null);

I want make thumbnails from video in run-time. It works fine with one little quirk. When video in the media element is paused the bitmap image comes broken. Like a corrupted jpeg. Sometime it is black square with some random coloured dots…

I think it is Silverlight bug. My question – is there a workaround?

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  1. Editorial Team

    By very chance I found what is wrong… I googled the solution above, verified it with several blogs and silverlight.net forums. I spent 40 min reading all those community giants publications trying to find what could be wrong in 3 lines of code. Everything pointed that this should work. And it does work.. Sometime…

    However when I try to make picture of still media element it doesnt work 9 times out of 10..

    the solution is dead simple.

            MediaElement me = myPlayer.MediaElement;
        WriteableBitmap wb = new WriteableBitmap(me.NaturalVideoWidth, me.NaturalVideoHeight);
        wb.Render(me, null);
        image.Source = wb;
        **wb.Invalidate();**
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