Smooth Video Transitions for WPF

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I'm using VB.net 2010 and WPF 4. I need to have a smooth transition between two videos played on the mediaelement. I absolutely cannot use anything that requires me to use a winhost in the WPF window, as that will make my project impossible (since the video is full screen, and the controls are over the video)

Basically, I need for the video to play through, and then smoothly go to another video specified in code behind. I cannot splice the two videos together - they must be separate.

How do I have the videos transition smoothly, with no "blink"?

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Have a look here darinhiggins.com/fading-two-video-windows-in-wpf - DmitryBoyko

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I'm guessing without testing here. You're probably going to need some CPU cores and a good video card.

If you have the memory, use two MediaElements.

  • Queue up both videos, one on each element.
  • Set the opacity of the second one to completely transparent. They're UIElements so this should work...
  • Use timers of some kind keyed from the start of playback on the first one so that you get an event a couple of seconds before playback ends.
  • With that event delegate, start the video in the second MediaElement, animate the first one's opacity to zero while simultaneously animating the second one to fully opaque.
  • If you need to do it again, set up the timer again and make sure your delegate animates things the other way.