Setting Initial Volume Levels In Silverlight Video Player Applications

I received an email from Chris Maunder, the Co-founder of Code Project about the initial volume level of Silverlight videos. On some systems the player has a very high initial volume level. The Silverlight Team is aware of this and is working on it.

The Silverlight forum discussion thread on this issue can be read here.  After reading the thread, it seems that most people with nVidia drivers are having most of the problems.  All my systems use nVidia drivers and I have not had the problem. The suggetions in the foum post mostly revolve around updating the motherboard chipset and audio card drivers.

I added this information to my Code Project article Creating, Encoding and Delivering Silverlight Streaming Screen Capture Videos.   In this article update I’ve added a section on how to edit the StartPlayer.js package file and set the initial volume level.

For those who are familar with editing the StartPlayer.js file the below image shows the very simple changed that can be made to lower the initial volume level of your Silverlight Video Player applications.  The volume property value defaults to, 1.0.  Changing this value to 0.5 will place the volume level at 50%.

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