title: Playing streaming video in WPF
body: <p>I've written a WCF service that streams media files. I'm now writing a WPF application that consumes this service and have only just found out that the MediaElement does not accept Stream objects as input parameters for the source property.</p>
  
  <p>I've been Googling endlessly for the past two days and have looked at several alternatives including the Silverlight Viewports inside WPF, VLC ActiveX controls, VideoRendererElement and WPFMediaKit. Unfortunately I've been hampered by lack of documentation and/or examples and haven't really made any progress so far. The fact that this is the very first time I'm using WPF doesn't help either.</p>
  
  <p>To put it simply, what I'm looking for is something that comes with documentation or examples demonstrating streaming in WPF and, if possible, is also straightforward to implement. The solution doesn't have to be perfect; all I need is something that works.</p>