How can I stream in a video in chunks

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How can I stream in a video in chunks to my windows form? I am trying to play a video from a stream but I want to stream it in chunks so it does not clog up the RAM. Any suggestions would be appriciated.
Here is some code I have tried:

C#

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
 {
      using (BinaryWriter br = new BinaryWriter(ms))
      {
           br.Write(8 + file.Length);
           br.Write(0x55665566);
           br.Write(file.Length);
           br.Write(file);
           ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
           flashPlayer.OcxState = new AxHost.State(ms, 1, false, null);
      }
 }

but if the video larger than 1 gig the application freezes.

Posted 21-Feb-15 18:49pm

Lance Andrew Coe

Updated 22-Feb-15 22:45pm

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Mehdi Gholam 22-Feb-15 2:24am

Streaming video does this automatically.

Lance Andrew Coe 23-Feb-15 4:34am

but if the stream is bigger than the RAM size (say a 2gig movie) the application freezes so I am trying to stream chunks at a time instead of loading the entire stream. sudo example:

load movie to memory stream;
MediaPlayer.PlayStream = memory stream;

Mehdi Gholam 23-Feb-15 4:36am

That is not streaming.

Lance Andrew Coe 23-Feb-15 4:45am

so how can I stream a video should I ask?

Mehdi Gholam 23-Feb-15 4:50am

Google is your friend : streaming video c#

Lance Andrew Coe 23-Feb-15 4:54am

I have spent almost 2 weeks on google now but the online solutions I could find use web application but I am creating a C# windows forms application thats needs to run on computers that don't have browsers or IIS

Kuthuparakkal 22-Feb-15 9:07am

Streaming means get by chunks, so whats the issue ?

Lance Andrew Coe 23-Feb-15 4:35am

but if the stream is bigger than the RAM size (say a 2gig movie) the application freezes so I am trying to stream chunks at a time instead of loading the entire stream. sudo example:

load movie to memory stream;
MediaPlayer.PlayStream = memory stream;

Lance Andrew Coe 23-Feb-15 9:41am

Im starting to get the feeling it is not possible to stream a video with windows forms or C#. Or maybe it is but no one has done it

[no name] 23-Feb-15 11:05am

If you upload your project somewhere and post a download-link here I'll try to figure it out. Feel free to rip anything out that's not related to the video streaming.

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