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November 20, 2008  
Subject: Windows Service / WPF Media player not working on Windows Server 2
Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general
Date: 8/8/2008 10:46:00 PM
From: =?Utf-8?B?Zm1zaGFmaXE=?= [Email Address Protection]

I have created a windows service in C# using Visual Studio 2008. This windows
service is meant to synchronize the Video Content information that has been
uploaded into an SLS (Silverlight Streaming Service) account. In order to get
a video's meta information (such as duration etc.) and generate it's
thumbnail without downloading it to our server, I am using WPF's MediaPlayer
class.

The service works fine in Windows Server 2003 32 bit and 64 bit edition.
However, it doesn't work in our deployment environment which is Windows
Server 2008 64 bit edition. The player simply fails to retrieve any video's
meta data and thumbnail generation doesn't work either. I don't have any idea
what is going wrong here. Event Viewer seems to have no clue about the
problem. Can somebody please guide me towards the problem resolution as i
have already slipped my deadline.


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