how to play AVI file using asp.net?

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How to play AVI file using asp.net (C#)?

Posted 2-Oct-13 20:47pm

amnk.info

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Oct-13 2:58am

http://whathaveyoutried.com so far?
—SA

Zoltán Zörgő 3-Oct-13 3:02am

USB detection???? How that :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Oct-13 9:05am

I meant "http://whathaveyoutried.com". Fixed.
Thank you very much, Zoltán. :-)
—SA
P.S.: By the way, learning a bit of USB detection won't hurt, either... :-)

thatraja 3-Oct-13 3:06am

SAK, I think you need a coffee now :D

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Oct-13 9:06am

Sure; will have some at work — too much work last night... :-)
—SA

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Posted 2-Oct-13 22:14pm

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-02T21:01:00

Solution 1

I suppose you want to play it on client side. In that case does not matter what programming language you use on server side.
First of all, AVI is not the best choice, because it is only a container that can hold streams encoded with many different codecs. And might not be supported on all platforms. So you have to take the client side into consideration. So forget avi.
If you want a wider audience, you can use HTML5 native video support, with fallback to flash. For that you can use this little one: http://www.videojs.com/[^]
If you stick to AVI, you will be bound to several platforms, and you need to have a good common plugin (not codec) installed on each and every client, like VLC provices: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin/[^], but I discourage you in taking this path.

Posted 2-Oct-13 21:01pm

Zoltán Zörgő

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amnk.info 3-Oct-13 3:16am

my user requested in AVI format. so i have to try to do it.. :(

Zoltán Zörgő 3-Oct-13 3:27am

Not all user requirements makes sense. It is up to you do direct them into the right direction. By the way, having AVIs uploaded does not mean that you need to display them as AVIs. You can use conversion on server side.

amnk.info 3-Oct-13 3:17am

Thanks for your reply and advise Zoltán Zörgő. nice explanation

thatraja 3-Oct-13 3:37am

Right, 5!

Zoltán Zörgő 3-Oct-13 5:20am

Thank you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Oct-13 9:13am

Sure, a 5.

It's good to add that "AVI" is merely a container (these days, most containers and codecs are supported equally on different platform, it all depends where you get them), and it support many codecs (but not all). Bigger problem is the set good of codecs.
The benefit (it depends on the view though) of VideoLAN is that it is based on ffmpeg (or libavcodec?) and hence does not depend on the set of codec installed on the OS.

—SA

Zoltán Zörgő 3-Oct-13 9:41am

Thank you.
I had recently a project where I had to show a video in a web application and I have used WebM. I am quite satisfied - even if with IE you still need some sort of codec to use it, and in rare cases the codec crashes with the same video.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Oct-13 13:09pm

Good info, thank you for sharing.
—SA