Customize MediaPlayer Control Panel

[Chris]

HI, Telerik Guru:

I'm tasked to display videos with the RadMediaPlayer control in a silverlight project. The area for me to put the MediaPlayer control in is very small, only 200px * 300px. When I tried to put the MediaPlayer there the control panel is not showing up right. What I meant by control panel is the panel that hold the progress bar, the play/pause, stop, fast forward, rewind buttons, the current time/total play time and full screen button. In my small area, the control panel looked cut off at the full screen button(it only has half showed up). Is there a way for me to customize this template? In this project I don't have enough real estate so I'm thinking I just need to show a few basic buttons with the progress bar above it. Please let me know if this is possible and some example code would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,

Chris

[Hristo]

Hi Chris,

You should edit the template of the MediaPlayer (more precisely the template of the RadMediaPlayerWrapper). You could take a look at this article about custom styles: http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/common-styling-appearance-edit-control-templates-blend.html

We already have such a feature request about hiding some parts when player is constrained with smaller size. You can vote and track its status through this link: http://www.telerik.com/support/pits.aspx#/public/silverlight/4569

All the best,
Hristo
the Telerik team