Video Brush
A video brush is a brush similar to any other brush. Instead
of painting an area with a color, a video brush paints an area with a video.
The video contents are provided by a MediaElement. We can use a visualBrush to
play a media by setting a MediaElement as its Visual attribute.
The following code snippet creates a MediaElement. The
Source property of the MediaElement is the name of the video file.
<MediaElement Source="Lake.wmv" Name="McMediaElement" Width="450" Height="250"
LoadedBehavior="Manual" UnloadedBehavior="Stop" Stretch="Fill />
The code snippet in Listing 27 creates a VisualBrush and
sets its Visual attribute to a MediaElement.
<VisualBrush >
<VisualBrush.Visual >
<MediaElement Source="Lake.wmv" Name="McMediaElement" Width="450" Height="250" LoadedBehavior="Manual" UnloadedBehavior="Stop" Stretch="Fill />
</VisualBrush.Visual >
</VisualBrush >
Listing 27
The code snippet in Listing 28 creates a MediaElement and
sets it as the Visual property of a VisualBrush.
MediaElement McMediaElement = new MediaElement();
McMediaElement.Source = new Uri("Lake.wmv", UriKind.Relative);McMediaElement.IsMuted = false;
VisualBrush videoBrush = new VisualBrush ();
videoBrush.Visual = McMediaElement;
Listing 28