My Silverlight teammates Akshay Johar and Andre Michaud have built a new custom slider for use in Silverlight 2 media players.
When you scrub the default slider in a MediaElement today, it generates a whole slew of valueChanged events, resulting in a huge number of seeks per second. This can confuse media playback, particularly when streaming from Windows Media Services, which then gets flooded with many requests a second.
Essentially it detects a “crazy mode” scrub, and quietly ignores it while the “crazy mode” is in place.
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