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Hosting your Silverlight media applications on Silverlight Streaming is really nice. You won't inherit any player look-and-feel that you may not like and with just a couple of mouse-clicks in Expression Blend you can change one of the player skins to your own liking. The applications can be embedded in any website without adding the bandwidth overhead of hosting the media yourself.

You may write you own player, but the fastest way is to start by copying the contents of one of the default Silverlight player skins from [Program Files]Microsoft Expression\Encoder 1.0\Templates\en to a new folder, edit the <$@ Options Name="YourTemplateName"$> tag in Default.html and start changing the look-and-feel of player.xaml using Expression Blend.

You then encode the Video using Expression Encoder, select your newly created template, upload the result to Silverlight Streaming and off you go. To find out everything about how to upload, check the Silverlight Streaming SDK.

So, here is a video playing in my own, simple player, hosted on Silverlight Streaming.

World of Warcraft, Kult der Verdammten, Horde, "Hollow Claw" raid alliance
First successful attempt at Onyxia in 2006
Movie shot by "Mithani".

My problem: I am not a big producer of Video content...