SharePoint 2013 - Media Web Part and Silverlight

Question

_{Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:38 AM}

Hi

Is Silverlight mandatory for Media Web Part.? As per my understanding .WMV and .MP4 files will be played in HTML 5 player with IE 9 and above.

I have configured a Media Web Part with a .WMV video file. We have to use IE9 browser. The video plays with Silverlight but if I uninstall Silverlight from machine it doesn't play. How to make these videos play in machines without silverlight?

Thanks

Ari

All replies (5)

_{Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:44 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Ariharaselvan,

If you use Media Web Part to play the video, you need to install Silverlight on the client server. If not, it doesn’t work.

As a workaround, you can use a third party media player to play the video. Here is a CodePlex solution, please have a try:

http://svp.codeplex.com/

There are some articles for your reference:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/aed125ee-614d-4fd6-9426-93aacc702b0d/play-video-on-page-without-using-silverlight?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/26a7639d-6b77-4bc3-8f36-0db10b132daf/using-internet-explorer-8-to-play-sharepoint-2013-video-stream-without-silverlight?forum=sharepointadmin

http://sharepointconnoisseur.blogspot.in/2011/05/play-video-and-media-files-in.html

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Wendy

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_{Thursday, April 17, 2014 5:16 AM}

Yes you need .

Please refer the link below.

Media Web Part (MWP) is new Silverlight based web part that can be used to play videos and audios. As it’s a new web part, there have been many doubts/questions around this web part.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sanjaynarang/archive/2010/05/26/media-web-part-in-sharepoint-2010-faq.aspx

_{Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:20 AM}

Thanks for the reply.

Then.. Is there anyway to play the videos without Silverlight installed?

Regards

Ari

_{Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:00 AM}

I doubt its not possible.

_{Monday, January 18, 2016 12:12 PM}

The Silverlight aspect only applies if you use video renditions or enable the download/embed options in the video properties. If these are disabled should play on anything. We first found this issue on iPads but have the videos playing fine now.

Thanks.