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Asked: 2026-05-23T19:32:49+00:00

I’ve embedded a Silverlight video file which is 15 MB in my silverlight assembly.

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I’ve embedded a Silverlight video file which is 15 MB in my silverlight assembly. I use Application.GetResourceStream to read the resource as an stream and then I pass the returned stream to the MediaElement control to start playing it.

Question: Does Application.GetResourceStream read the whole embedded file at once? If yes, Is there any solution to prevent this behaviour?

Note: I’m building an OOB silverlight application and it’s going to be published using offline media(CD ROM), so don’t worry about the enlarged xap file.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The clue is in the name Stream. That means it opens a file and reads from it sequentially (like a flowing stream).

    Because of the nature of video players, which decompress streams on the fly, it will buffer a certain amount internally before playback starts. This allows the playback to stay ahead of the incoming data. For a locally stored file that will only be a small amount of data.

    Why were you concerned about it reading the whole file? Are you having performance problems or long delays?

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