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Joe Stegman has published the source to the TrustedApp media player sample he showed at PDC 2009. 

This sample requires the Silverlight 4 Beta which you can find here. This "trusted app" sample uses the new file system APIs, notification window APIs, windowing APIs, WebBrowser control, HTML Brush and Native integration.  For Native Integration, this sample will take the current playlist and import/export to/from Excel (assuming Excel is on the system). 

This tutorial may well be the most important in the process of building a Silverlight video player.

In our previous example “Building a Play-Pause control for a Hulu inspired SilverLight video player” the video was included within the Silverlight file. This caused a very bad user experience because the user had to wait to load the entire video before the file was shown.

First step is to get URL to the desired video in HD format. YouTube encodes every video in several different formats and for this tutorial I wanted to use HD MP4 format.

The player is meant to be relatively simple while still sporting the basic features you'd expect in a video player. Thanks to Nick Kramer (project manager at Microsoft) for creating this player.