Cannot play local WMV in silverlight MediElement

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Published on 2010-03-20T03:29:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 3:31 UTC
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Hello,

I am trying to play a video in WMV format in a silverlight MediaElement.

<StackPanel>
  <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
        <MediaElement x:Name="media" Source="C:\Bounce.wmv" 
    Width="300" Height="300" AutoPlay="True" />
    </Grid>
     </StackPanel>

This does nothiing.. but if I change the source attribute to point to some WMV out on the web it works.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Nick

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