It is very simple.
Little bastard is behaving on it's own. Error descriptions provide no help, or even put you on very bad trail.
The thing is, you can't ask MediaElement for it's State!!! He actively refuses to tell about his state.
Sometimes I just want to punish somebody in WPF team.
This is basic functionality.
No excuses.
Fix it.
P.S.
The problem is not new. In MediaPlayer, similar problem exists. Although there is State property, it causes problems every some time, which is really not something you want to have in 24x7 applications we do.
And especially I dislike bug in rendering that just happen like black screen, with everything normally working, just there is black screen. Virtually undetectable.
Fix it!
