playing videos from local files on web browser control

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I know there are few players (wmp,vlc etc) to play videos on form.. But i am curious that whether the media files can be played on a web browser control.. i have wrote following piece of code:

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace webBrowser
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        WebBrowser webBrowser1;
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            webBrowser1 = new WebBrowser();
            webBrowser1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(578, 446);
            webBrowser1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Top;
            panel1.Controls.Add(webBrowser1);
            //webBrowser1.Navigate("https://www.google.co.in/");
            webBrowser1.Url = new Uri( @"D:\myfolder\game.avi");
        }
    }
}

here when i run my code A download pop up comes and the file will be downloaded.. and the form shows web page not available .. Any help would be appreciated..

Posted 21-Sep-13 1:57am

Sachin Athrady

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[no name] 21-Sep-13 8:15am

Probably because "D:\myfolder\game.avi" is not a valid URL. Try file://D:\myfolder\game.avi

Sachin Athrady 21-Sep-13 8:22am

same result bro

Sachin Athrady 21-Sep-13 8:18am

thx fr ur reply.. But tht gives some error ... i ve tried this ( "D:\\myfolder\\game.avi");
but still no change :(

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member 8888995 · Answer 1 · 2013-09-25T20:44:00

Hi ThePhantomUpvoter ,
I don't know why you are directly giving path of video file to WebBrowser control?
Instead of that you can prepare a html page with video tag and width , height and source attribute specified for it.
Then give this html page's path as Url to your WebBrowser control. Try this whether it is working or not?
Something like this

C#

webBrowser1.Url = new Uri( @"D:\myfolder\MyHtmlPage.html");

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Thnaks