Binding MediaElement to slider position in WPF

Question

Tried binding Maximum value of slider to media element's duration and binding slider's current value to the position of media element, but but for some reasons it doesn't.

I want the slider to move it's thumb while the video is playing.

<Slider x:Name="videoSlider" Value="{Binding ElementName=mp3MediaElement, Path=Position}" 
ValueChanged="videoSlider_ValueChanged" IsMoveToPointEnabled="True" 
Maximum="{Binding ElementName=mp3MediaElement, Path=NaturalDuration}" 
AllowDrop="True" DataContext="{Binding ElementName=mp3MediaElement}" />

Answer 1

I didn't use binding.. I had a similar issue and used timer for this (My code is in Silverlight by it suppose to be the same on WPF):

First direction (movie updates the slider)

private TimeSpan TotalTime;

private void MyMediaElement_MediaOpened(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            TotalTime = MyMediaElement.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan;

            // Create a timer that will update the counters and the time slider
            timerVideoTime = new DispatcherTimer();
            timerVideoTime.Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1);
            timerVideoTime.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick);
            timerVideoTime.Start();
        }

void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Check if the movie finished calculate it's total time
            if (MyMediaElement.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.TotalSeconds > 0)
            {
                if (TotalTime.TotalSeconds > 0)
                {
                    // Updating time slider
                    timeSlider.Value = MyMediaElement.Position.TotalSeconds /
                                       TotalTime.TotalSeconds;
                }
            }
        }

Second direction (user updates the slider)
on form ctor or something like this write the following line:

timeSlider.AddHandler(MouseLeftButtonUpEvent, 
                      new MouseButtonEventHandler(timeSlider_MouseLeftButtonUp), 
                      true);

and the event handler is:

private void timeSlider_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (TotalTime.TotalSeconds > 0)
            {
                MyMediaElement.Position = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeSlider.Value * TotalTime.TotalSeconds);
            }
        }