Download mp4 video from server to specified client local

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Hi,

I need to download videos which are located under server to user's specified local path.
I have a web server application and an embedded server application for client side.
Somehow I need to get byte buffer from code behind webmethod then I need to send the byte buffer to my embedded server via ajaxrequest from client side.
How can I do this way, or is there any other way to do it?

Posted 27-Apr-15 0:44am

kubibay

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virusstorm 27-Apr-15 10:00am

Why not pass the URL of the file into your embedded web server application and simply use the WebClient.DownloadFile to download the file?

kubibay 28-Apr-15 3:55am

The videos may not be public but when I test the way you suggest I get "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error." error..

virusstorm 28-Apr-15 15:05pm

Are you logging the error details?

kubibay 29-Apr-15 3:22am

It is happening on downloadfile method.. What details do you mean?

kubibay 29-Apr-15 7:43am

Ok I found the problem, I can now save the video via webclient.download file. But I would prefer to send video bytes in chunks and for non-public videos.

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Solution 1

Use Response.

Set the ContentType to "video/mp4" and use BinaryWrite to send the content.

HTML

Response.ContentType = "video/mp4";
Response.Clear();
Response.BufferOutput = true;
 
// use a reader to load the video content

Response.BinaryWrite(reader.Value);
 
Response.Flush();

Posted 27-Apr-15 4:04am

Joan Magnet

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kubibay 28-Apr-15 3:55am

The problem is; server can't access the embedded server, so the embedded server side must be done client side, but the mp4 file is located at server side. So I need to get data from code behind and send it from client side? How can we do that?
I can get bytes from webmethod but can't send them to javascript side!

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kubibay · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13T01:46:00

Solution 2

I found the way to do that,

Embedded server and
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch15.html#DOWNLOADING_DATA_WITH_XHR[^]

Posted 13-May-15 1:46am

kubibay