Now that you can easily stream videos from Azure’s blobs, you may want to translate the strings used in the player Framework.
Today, I struggled a lot doing something basic : translating in french the text of the “error view” in the player framework.
As usual, there is an easy solution !
I tried a lot of things, but none of it has done the job :
- to set the language attribute of the mediaPlayer
- to remove the default ErrorPlugin and add a one with the language set
- to create and apply a custom error view style
Finally, I downloaded the source code of the player framework and I noticed that there is a ResourceLoader property on the MediaPlayer class. This is the resource loader used to get all the strings of the MediaPlayer.
So the solution is easy : just copy the resource file of the player framework and customize it for your application. As this is a static property, you can do it once and for all in the App’s Loaded method.
Here is what I do in my app :
[csharp]MediaPlayer.ResourceLoader = new ResourceLoader("/Microsoft.PlayerFramework");[/csharp]
With this folder/file tree :
If you need to refresh your knowledge, you can also read my post on ressources. It targets WinJS but the basics are the same.
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