WPF Programmer's Reference: Windows Presentation Foundation with C# 2010 and .NET 4

Appendix E. MediaElement Control

This appendix summarizes the MediaElement control's most useful properties, methods, and events.

Note that many of these properties shown in Table E-1 through E-3 are read-only.

Table E.1. Key Properties of Media

Property	Purpose
Balance	Determines the speaker balance.
BufferingProgress	Returns the percentage of buffering complete.
CanPause	Returns True if the media can be paused.
DownloadProgress	Returns the percentage of download complete.
HasAudio	Returns True if the media has audio.
HasVideo	Returns True if the media has video.
IsBuffering	Returns True if the control is buffering its media.
IsMuted	Returns True if the audio is muted.
LoadedBehavior	Determines what the control does when it is loaded. This can be Manual (control "manually" in code), Play (play when there's valid media), Close (close and release all memory), Pause (prepare to play and then pause), or Stop (prepare to play and then stop).
NaturalDuration	Returns the media's natural duration. This can be a TimeSpan (use the NaturalDuration.HasTimeSpan to see if it has one before using NaturalDuration.TimeSpan), Automatic, or Forever.
NaturalVideoHeight	Returns the video's height.
NaturalVideoWidth	Returns the video's width.
Position	Determines the playback position.
ScrubbingEnabled	Determines whether the control updates itself when a seek is performed while the control is paused.
Source	The media's source
SpeedRatio	Determines the speed ratio. Use a value less than 1 for slow motion or a value greater than 1 for fast ...